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File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|[[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] renews support for [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]] charter.
File:Richard_Trevithick.jpg|link=Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|1771: Engineer and explorer [[Richard Trevithick (nonfiction)|Richard Trevithick]] born. Trevithick will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.
 
File:Herbert Osborn Yardley.jpg|link=Herbert Yardley (nonfiction)|1889: Cryptologist and author [[Herbert Yardley (nonfiction)|Herbert Yardley]] born. Yardley will found and lead the Black Chamber, a secret American government cryptographic organization which will break Japanese diplomatic codes, furnishing American negotiators with significant information during the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922.
 
File:Charles Renard.jpg|link=Charles Renard (nonfiction)|1905: Engineer [[Charles Renard (nonfiction)|Charles Renard]] commits suicide.  Renard pioneer the design and construction of airships. He also proposed a set of preferred numbers now known as the Renard series.
 
File:Mendel Sachs.jpg|link=Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|1927: Theoretical physicist [[Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|Mendel Sachs]] born. Sachs' work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.
 
File:MKUltra proposal.jpg|link=Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the secret drug research program [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]], intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control.
 
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