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1994 Dixy Lee Ray, chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Commission), dies at 79

1979 100,000 demonstrate in Bonn against nuclear energy

1979 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at MSG, New York

1979 1st recorded occurrance-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)

1978 "Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US

1977 Department Of Energy established

1977 High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 launched into Earth orbit

1977 President Carter establishes Department of Energy

1974 Lewis L Strauss, head U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (1953-58), dies at 78

1973 Maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure

1973 OLADE (Latin American Energy Organization) forms

1957 International Atomic Energy Agency formed by U.N.

1956 U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved

1955 Geneva conference held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy

1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially

1954 Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer

1952 U.S. airplanes bomb energy centers at Yalu, Korea

1951 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced

1949 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

1947 Atomic Energy Commission confirmed

1946 President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

1940 Dawid J "Dawie" de Villiers, South African minister of energy, 1989-

1902 Geoffrey W. Lloyd, British minister of Brandstoffen/Energy, 1951-55

1873 Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet, Energy Storage, Nobel 1944

1818 James Prescott Joule, physicist, discovered conservation of energy



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