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File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1878: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] dies.  He was an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.  
File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1878: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] dies.  He was an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.  


||Guido Fubini (b. 19 January 1879) was an Italian mathematician, known for Fubini's theorem and the Fubini–Study metric. Pic.
||1879: Guido Fubini born ... mathematician, known for Fubini's theorem and the Fubini–Study metric. Pic.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1883: The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]], begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1883: The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]], begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
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File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1884: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] uses what will later be called the Gramme Device to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1884: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] uses what will later be called the Gramme Device to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1908 – Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1971)
||1908: Aleksandr Gennadievich Kurosh born ... mathematician and theorist.


||Garrett Birkhoff (b. January 19, 1911) was an American mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory. The mathematician George Birkhoff (1884–1944) was his father.
||1911: Garrett Birkhoff born ... mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory. The mathematician George Birkhoff (1884–1944) was his father. Pic.


||1912 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
||1912: Leonid Kantorovich born ... mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1915: Georges Claude patents the [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|neon discharge tube]] for use in advertising.
File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1915: Georges Claude patents the [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|neon discharge tube]] for use in advertising.


||1915 – World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
||1915: World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.


||Graham Higman (b. 19 January 1917) was a prominent British mathematician known for his contributions to group theory. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector, working at the Meteorological Office in Northern Ireland and Gibraltar. Pic.
||1917: Graham Higman dies ... mathematician known for his contributions to group theory. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector, working at the Meteorological Office in Northern Ireland and Gibraltar. Pic.


||1917 – Seventy-three people are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
||1917: Seventy-three people are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.


||1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
||1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.

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