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File:Huaynaputina.jpg|link=Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|1600: The [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]] explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. | File:Huaynaputina.jpg|link=Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|1600: The [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]] explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America. | ||
File:Jean Charles Borda.jpg|link=Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)| | File:Jean Charles Borda.jpg|link=Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor [[Jean-Charles de Borda (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles de Borda]] dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement. | ||
File:Eisenhower in the Oval Office February 1956.jpg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by [[transdimensional corporations]]. | File:Eisenhower in the Oval Office February 1956.jpg|link=Transdimensional corporation|1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by [[transdimensional corporations]]. | ||
File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1959: [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] spontaneously generate [[Extract of Radium]]. | File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1959: [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] spontaneously generate [[Extract of Radium]]. | ||
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1600: The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.
1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by transdimensional corporations.
1959: Carnivorous dirigibles spontaneously generate Extract of Radium.
2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most.
2017: Extract of Radium sponsors re-enactment of the Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina.