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File:Angelo_Secchi.jpg|link=Angelo Secchi (nonfiction)|1878: Astronomer and Jesuit priest [[Angelo Secchi (nonfiction)|Angelo Secchi]] dies. Secchi was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
File:Angelo_Secchi.jpg|link=Angelo Secchi (nonfiction)|1878: Astronomer and Jesuit priest [[Angelo Secchi (nonfiction)|Angelo Secchi]] dies. Secchi was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
File:Radar_memorial_plaque_at_Daventry.jpg|link=Robert Watson-Watt (nonfiction)|1935: [[Robert Watson-Watt (nonfiction)|Robert Watson-Watt]] and [[Arnold Wilkins (nonfiction)|Arnold Wilkins]] give the first demonstration of radar in an experiment near near Daventry, England using two receiving antennas.


File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies.  He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies.  He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.


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