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[May 21st, 1946] Dr. Louis Slotin, a physicist at the Los Alamos research center, is fatally injured during an experiment with a "subcritical nuclear assembly", a plutonium core and two halves of a beryllium sphere.

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[May 20th, 1926] Humphrey Bogart, age 26, gets married to actress Helen Menken. They divorced the following year.

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Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds' "Three Lions" song turns 30 today. When it came out, England's last (and only) World Cup victory was 30 years earlier, in 1966.

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[May 20th, 1946] A U.S. Army C-45 transport plane crashed into the 58th floor of the 70-story Bank of Manhattan building on Wall Street, killing all five persons aboard

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