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||1911 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (d. 1995) - computer chess | ||1911 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and engineer (d. 1995) - computer chess | ||
File:Marie Curie c1920.jpg|link=Marie Curie (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter [[Marie Curie (nonfiction)|Marie Curie]] condemns [[Extract of Radium]] as "a terrible hazard to health and sanity." | |||
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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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.
1904: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter Marie Curie condemns Extract of Radium as "a terrible hazard to health and sanity."
1929: Captain and pilot Francis Gary Powers born.
1930: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde begins shooting his film Spy Pilot.
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).
1996: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, spontaneous seeks out and fights crimes against mathematical constants.