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File:The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895).jpg|link=Time machine (nonfiction)|First publication of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]''.
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File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1794: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.
 
File:Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger.jpg|link=Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|1860: Electrical engineer and inventor [[Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger]] born. He will invent the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which will be critical to the general acceptance of AC power.
 
File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1895: Russian physicist [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver.
 
File:The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895).jpg|link=Time machine (nonfiction)|1895: First publication of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]'' by H. G. Wells.
 
File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]].
 
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  • 1700: Physician Gerard van Swieten born.

    1700: Physician Gerard van Swieten born.

  • 1794: French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

    1794: French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.

  • 1860: Electrical engineer and inventor Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger born. He will invent the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which will be critical to the general acceptance of AC power.

    1860: Electrical engineer and inventor Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger born. He will invent the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which will be critical to the general acceptance of AC power.

  • 1895: Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver.

    1895: Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver.

  • 1895: First publication of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

    1895: First publication of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

  • 1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

    1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

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