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File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1871: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to expose [[Loaded dice (nonfiction)|loaded dice]].
File:Gerard_van_Swieten_Kaiserbild.jpg|link=Gerard van Swieten (nonfiction)|1700: Physician [[Gerard van Swieten (nonfiction)|Gerard van Swieten]] born.
File:The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895).jpg|link=Time machine (nonfiction)|1895: First publication of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]''.
 
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File:Supplice de 9 émigrés Octobre 1793.jpg|link=French Revolution (nonfiction)|1794: [[French Revolution (nonfiction)|French Revolution]]: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state religion of the French First Republic.


558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
File:Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger.jpg|link=Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|1860: Electrical engineer and inventor [[Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|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 – In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
File:Alexander Stepanovich Popov.jpg|link=Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|1895: Russian physicist [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]] demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver.


1915 – World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire
File:The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895).jpg|link=Time machine (nonfiction)|1895: First publication of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]'' by H. G. Wells.


1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
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]].


1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
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2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
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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.

  • 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.

  • 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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