1981 Death Michael Granger, actor (Creature with Atom Brain, Pier 5 Havana), dies 1965 Event 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes 1962 Death Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (atom, Nobel 1922), dies at 77 1960 Birthday Atom Egoyan, born in Cairo, Egypt, director, Adjuster, Next of Kin 1960 Event 2nd French atom bomb explodes in the Reggane Proving Grounds, Algeria 1958 Event After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion 1952 Event Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion) 1951 Event Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb 1951 Event U.S. General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea 1950 Event U.S. President Truman threatens China with atom bomb 1949 Event U.S.S.R. explodes their 1st atom bomb 1946 Event U.S. drops atom bomb on Bikini atoll (4th atomic explosion) 1945 Event Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan) 1945 Event U.S. cruiser Indianapolis reaches Tinian with atom bomb 1945 Event Cruiser Indianapolis leaves San Francisco with atom bomb 1945 Event 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico 1939 Event Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University 1913 Birthday Willis Lamb, born in Los Angeles, physicist, Nobel Prize winner, discovery of how electrons behave in the hydrogen atom 1909 Birthday William G Penney, British physicist, 1st British Atom Bomb 1898 Birthday Isidor Isaac Rabi, Poland, physicist, explored atom, Nobel 1944
