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||1952: The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
||1952: The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1960: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises funds for new film about the American U-2 pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]].


File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]].
File:Gary Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]].
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden detail.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|1960: Actor, cryptographer, and alleged time-traveller [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)|Niles Cartouchian]] meets privately with Nikita Khrushchev and [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]] in a successful attempt to avoid nuclear war.


||1973: Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann dies ... historian of mathematics, known for his research on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Pic.
||1973: Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann dies ... historian of mathematics, known for his research on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Pic.

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  • 1700: Physician Gerard van Swieten born.

    1700: Physician Gerard van Swieten born.

  • 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.

    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.

    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.

    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: Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver.

  • 1895: First publication of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

    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.

    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.

    1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

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