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||1617 – David Fabricius, German astronomer and theologian (b. 1564) | |||
||1700 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician (d. 1772) Vampires | |||
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. | |||
||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]]. | ||
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File:The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895).jpg|link=Time machine (nonfiction)|1895: First publication of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]''. | File:The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895).jpg|link=Time machine (nonfiction)|1895: First publication of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]''. | ||
||Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (Russian: Па́вел Серге́евич Алекса́ндров), sometimes romanized Paul Alexandroff or Aleksandrov (b. 7 May 1896), was a Soviet mathematician. He wrote about three hundred papers, making important contributions to set theory and topology. | |||
File:H. H. Holmes.jpg|link=H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|1896: Serial killer [[H. H. Holmes (nonfiction)|H. H. Holmes]] is executed for the murder of his friend and accomplice Benjamin Pitezel. | |||
||1913 – Simon Ramo, American physicist and engineer (d. 2016) | |||
||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 | |||
||1925 – Lauri Vaska, Estonian-American chemist and academic (d. 2015) | |||
||1928 – The Jinan incident begins with Japanese forces killing the Chinese negotiating team in Jinan, China, and going on to kill over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days. | |||
||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]]. | |||
||1992 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49. | |||
||1994 – Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February. | |||
||2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924) | |||
||2014 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (b. 1943) | |||
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Revision as of 12:58, 29 October 2017
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.
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: Judge Havelock purchases signed first edition of The Time Machine as a gift for Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov.
1895: First publication of The Time Machine.
1896: Serial killer H. H. Holmes is executed for the murder of his friend and accomplice Benjamin Pitezel.
1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.