Template:Are You Sure/April 2

1979: A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing as many as a hundred people. Soviet authorities will cover up the event; all medical records of the victims will be removed in order to hide serious violations of the Biological Weapons Convention.

• ... that mathematician and checkers player Marion Franklin Tinsley (February 3, 1927 – April 3, 1995) is considered to be the greatest checkers player who ever lived, and that Tinsley was "to checkers what Leonardo da Vinci was to science, what Michelangelo was to art and what Beethoven was to music"?

• ... that Cooper Black, Forensic Typographer' is a dramatic television series loosely based on the life of pioneering forensic typographer "Supercool" Drew Cabo?

• ... that graphic designer and typographer Jan Tschichold was a leading advocate of Modernist design who, in his later years, condemned Modernist design in general as authoritarian and inherently fascistic?

• ... that the accidental release of anthrax spores from a Soviet military research facility near the city of Sverdlovsk, Russia (now Yekaterinburg) on April 2, 1977 caused as many as a hundred deaths (although the exact number of victims remains unknown), and that the outbreak was concealed for years by Soviet authorities, who removed all medical records of the victims in order to hide serious violations of the Biological Weapons Convention?