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Sep 29 195714:38 Sep 29 2005
Times Read: 974
An explosion at the Chelyabinsk-40 complex, a Soviet nuclear fuel processing plant, irradiates the nearby city of Kyshtym with strontium-90, cesium-137, and plutonium. This accident releases twice the radioactivity of the Chernobyl incident.
September 27th21:40 Sep 27 2005
Times Read: 987
E = mc²
This famous equation by Albert Einstein is a mathematical expression ultimately derived from assertions made in the statement:
“If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c²”.
First published in the
Annalen der Physik
(27 September 1905)
Sep 16 192020:06 Sep 16 2005
Times Read: 1,014
A horse-drawn carriage parked at the corner of Wall and Broad streets suddenly explodes just past mid-day. 100 pounds of dynamite hurls 500 pounds of steel shrapnel into a crowd of New Yorkers, killing 40 and wounding almost 300 others. No one is ever charged in the world's first car bombing.
Sep 10 199319:34 Sep 10 2005
Times Read: 1,033
The X-Files premieres on the Fox network. 7.4 million homes tune in for the science fiction/conspiracy/detective show.
Sep 8 196615:28 Sep 08 2005
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Star Trek debuts on NBC, with the airing of an episode titled "The Man Trap." The science fiction show proceeds to suffer in the ratings against established sitcoms Bewitched and My Three Sons.
Sep 7 197815:02 Sep 07 2005
Times Read: 1,057
Walking to the bus stop, BBC journalist Georgi Markov suddenly feels a sharp pain in his right calf. A KGB assassin had jabbed him with an umbrella tip, rigged to inject a tiny platinum sphere. The pellet is laden with ricin, a castor-based toxin with no known antidote. Markov dies in the hospital four agonizing days later.
Sep 6 195123:48 Sep 06 2005
Times Read: 1,075
During a drinking party in Mexico City, author
William S. Burroughs instructs his wife Joan to balance a glass of gin on her head. He then takes careful aim with his new .38 pistol, and unintentionally blows her brains out in front of their friends. The Mexican authorities later charge Burroughs with criminal imprudence.
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