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File:H. H. Holmes.jpg|link=H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|1896: Serial killer [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]] is executed for the murder of his friend and accomplice Benjamin Pitezel. | File:H. H. Holmes.jpg|link=H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|1896: Serial killer [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]] is executed for the murder of his friend and accomplice Benjamin Pitezel. | ||
||Theodor Schneider (b. 7 May 1911) was a German mathematician, best known for providing proof of what is now known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem. Schneider studied from 1929 to 34 in Frankfurt; he solved Hilbert's 7th problem in his PhD thesis, which then came to be known as the Gelfond–Schneider theorem. | |||
||1913 – Simon Ramo, American physicist and engineer (d. 2016) | ||1913 – Simon Ramo, American physicist and engineer (d. 2016) | ||
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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.
1832: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann born. He will study physics with his father, and later work as a mathematician, dealing almost exclusively with problems arising from physics.
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: Judge Havelock purchases signed first edition of The Time Machine as a gift for Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov.
1895: First publication of The Time Machine.
1896: Serial killer H. H. Holmes is executed for the murder of his friend and accomplice Benjamin Pitezel.
1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.