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||1896 – Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (d. 1970) | ||1896 – Leslie Groves, American general and engineer (d. 1970) | ||
||Francis Perrin (b. 1901) was a French physicist - Nuclear High-Commissioner | |||
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: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." | ||
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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.