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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:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1926: Aviator [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.
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:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] born. He will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|1952: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' reveals new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which "forecast the emergence of [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]] within a year."
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 mind-control program [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]].
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.


File:Palomares H-Bomb airships.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigibles|1954: Latest generation of [[Carnivorous dirigibles]] develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.
File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|2008: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] dies. He linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
File:The Eel.jpg|link=The Eel|2009: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] uses portable wormhole generator to escape [[The Nacreum]].
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  • 1771: Engineer and explorer 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.

    1771: Engineer and explorer 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.

  • 1889: Cryptologist and author 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.

    1889: Cryptologist and author 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.

  • 1905: Engineer 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.

    1905: Engineer 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.

  • 1927: Theoretical physicist 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.

    1927: Theoretical physicist 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.

  • 1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the secret drug research program 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.

    1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the secret drug research program 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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