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File:Simeon Poisson.jpg|link=Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|1781: Mathematician and physicist [[Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|Siméon Denis Poisson]] born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
File:Simeon Poisson.jpg|link=Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|1781: Mathematician and physicist [[Siméon Denis Poisson (nonfiction)|Siméon Denis Poisson]] born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
||1948: The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), nicknamed Baby, was the world's first stored-program computer. It was built at the Victoria University of Manchester, England, by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Small-Scale_Experimental_Machine


||1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
||1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.

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