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||1946 – The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission | ||1946 – The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission | ||
File:Goldsboro Mk 39 bomb.jpg|link=1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1961: | File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1960: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises funds for new film about the upcoming [[1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Goldsboro B-52 crash]]. | ||
File:Goldsboro Mk 39 bomb.jpg|link=1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1961: [[1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Goldsboro B-52 crash]]: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost. | |||
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he is "confident that the [[1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Goldsboro B-52 crash]] is a sound business investment." | |||
||1966 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909) | ||1966 – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1909) | ||
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1972: New evidence suggests that ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is based on actual events. | |File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1972: New evidence suggests that ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is based on actual events. | ||
File:Cosmos-954 debris.png|link=Kosmos 954 (nonfiction)|1978: Soviet satellite [[Kosmos 954 (nonfiction)|Kosmos 954]], with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered. | File:Cosmos-954 debris.png|link=Kosmos 954 (nonfiction)|1978: Soviet satellite [[Kosmos 954 (nonfiction)|Kosmos 954]], with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered. | ||
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1798: Mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.
1960: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises funds for new film about the upcoming Goldsboro B-52 crash.
1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that the Goldsboro B-52 crash is a sound business investment."
1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
1988: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel dies. He established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.
2016: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen in broad daylight by supervillain Gnotilus.
2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies.
2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.