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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: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: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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558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders that the dome be rebuilt.
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.


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:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1895: [[Havelock]] purchases signed first edition of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]'' as a gift for Russian physicist [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov (nonfiction)|Alexander Stepanovich Popov]].  


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]]''.
 
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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.
 
2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)

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