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||1700: Gerard van Swieten born | File:Gerard_van_Swieten_Kaiserbild.jpg|link=Gerard van Swieten (nonfiction)|1700: Physician [[Gerard van Swieten (nonfiction)|Gerard van Swieten]] born. | ||
File:Antoine Lavoisier.jpg|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|1794: Chemist, aristocrat, and crime-fighter [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]] publishes his groundbreaking treatise on [[crimes against chemical constants]], introducing nomenclature and terminology used to this day. | File:Antoine Lavoisier.jpg|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|1794: Chemist, aristocrat, and crime-fighter [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]] publishes his groundbreaking treatise on [[crimes against chemical constants]], introducing nomenclature and terminology used to this day. |
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1700: Physician Gerard van Swieten born.
1794: Chemist, aristocrat, and crime-fighter Antoine Lavoisier publishes his groundbreaking treatise on crimes against chemical constants, introducing nomenclature and terminology used to this day.
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.
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: Mathematician and alleged immortal John Havelock purchases signed first edition of The Time Machine, telling author H. G. Wells that the book "is an instant classic."
1895: First publication of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.
1896: Serial killer H. H. Holmes is executed for the murder of his friend and accomplice Benjamin Pitezel.
1960: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises funds for new film about the 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.
1960: Actor, cryptographer, and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian meets privately with Nikita Khrushchev and Gary Powers in a successful attempt to avoid nuclear war.
2016: Crimson Blossom 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.