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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.
1832: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann born. He will study physics with his father, and later work as a mathematician, dealing almost exclusively with problems arising from physics.
1860: Electrical engineer and inventor Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger born. He will invent the first successful alternating current electrical meter, which will be critical to the general acceptance of AC power.
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: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller John 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.

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 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.
-File:Havelock.jpg|link=Judge Havelock|1895: [[Judge 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]].
+File:Havelock.jpg|link=Judge Havelock|1895: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller [[John 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]].
 File:The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895).jpg|link=Time machine (nonfiction)|1895: First publication of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]''.