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Events on Monday 11 April 1955 1
1955The Russell-Einstein ManifestoHis last public act, signed a week before his deathBertrand Russell's appeal to the world's governments to renounce nuclear war reached Princeton in April 1955 and Einstein signed it on the 11th. It was released in London in July with eleven signatures. The manifesto led directly to the Pugwash Conferences.