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File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity. | File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity. | ||
||RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test. | |||
||1981 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) | ||1981 – Hans Adolf Krebs, German-English physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) |
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1916: Author Jack London dies. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1946: ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") successfully refactors the Wow! signal.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series provides formula for clandestiphrine, authorities expect rise in crimes against mathematical constants.
1963: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1963: United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
1965: Umbrella Man witnesses rubbed with Clandestiphrine, 73% die of stack overflow allergy. Witness Protection Program implements software patch to prevent recurrence.
1967: Clandestiphrine trafficking money laundered via The Little Petroleum Sample That Could, say transdimensional drug authorities.