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File:Havelock.jpg|link=John Havelock|1895: Mathematician and alleged immortal [[John Havelock]] purchases signed first edition of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]'', telling author H. G. Wells that the book "is an instant classic." | File:Havelock.jpg|link=John Havelock|1895: Mathematician and alleged immortal [[John Havelock]] purchases signed first edition of ''[[Time machine (nonfiction)|The Time Machine]]'', telling author H. G. Wells that the book "is an instant classic." | ||
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]]'' by H. G. Wells. | ||
||Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov | ||Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandrov (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. | 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. |
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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 immortal John Havelock purchases signed first edition of The Time Machine, telling author H. G. Wells that the book "is an instant classic."
1895: First publication of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.
1896: Serial killer H. H. Holmes is executed for the murder of his friend and accomplice Benjamin Pitezel.
1960: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises funds for new film about the American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1960: Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
1960: Actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian meets privately with Nikita Khrushchev and Gary Powers in a successful attempt to avoid nuclear war.
2018: Three Kings declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.