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||1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
||1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|1964: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.


||1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897)
||1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897)


File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] dies. He invented and named the laser.
File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] dies. He invented and named the laser.
File:Vladimir Arnold.jpg|link=Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]] uses the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||2016 – Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (b. 1925)
||2016 – Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (b. 1925)


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