Rudolf Diesel Died / Kyshtym disaster - September 29

Rudolf Diesel disappeared on this day in 1913, which is also marked as the date of his death. / On this day in 1957, an explosion in a Soviet plutonium-processing plant created fallout that contaminated thousands of square miles around the disaster site.

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