2052: Stanislav Petrov Day

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Stanislav Petrov Day
I was going to get you an alarm clock that occasionally goes off randomly in the middle of the night, but you can ignore it and go back to sleep and it's fine.
Title text: I was going to get you an alarm clock that occasionally goes off randomly in the middle of the night, but you can ignore it and go back to sleep and it's fine.

    Explanation

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    Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Станисла́в Евгра́фович Петро́в; 7 September 1939 – 19 May 2017) was a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces who became known as "the man who single-handedly saved the world from nuclear war" for his role in the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident.

    Transcript

    [Meghan is looking at her phone.]
    Meghan: Hey, Wednesday was Stanislav Petrov day. We missed it.
    Cueball: Oh, shoot! I got a calendar alert for it, but I assumed it was a false alarm.
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