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|File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1562: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
|File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1562: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
||1607 – Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer and mathematician (d. 1665)
||1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
||1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
||1911 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (d. 1995) - computer chess


File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1929: Captain and pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] born.
File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1929: Captain and pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] born.
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|File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1933: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
|File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1933: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
||1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program.
||1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country.
||1969 – Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)


|File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1969: During a command performance at the White House, musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] gives the first public demonstration of the [[math virus]] which will later be known as the [[Watergate Scandal (virus)|Watergate Scandal virus]].
|File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1969: During a command performance at the White House, musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] gives the first public demonstration of the [[math virus]] which will later be known as the [[Watergate Scandal (virus)|Watergate Scandal virus]].


File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).
||1993 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1920)


File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1996: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] develops self-awareness, spontaneous seeks out and fights [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1996: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] develops self-awareness, spontaneous seeks out and fights [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||2005 – John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1934) - solar neutrino problem
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