Physics
- May 18 - "Smiling Buddha", India's first nuclear test explosion takes place underground at Pokhran.
- "November Revolution": J/ψ meson, the first particle found to contain a charm quark, discovered by teams at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, led by Samuel Ting, and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, led by Burton Richter.
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