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File:Gerard_van_Swieten_Kaiserbild.jpg|link=Gerard van Swieten (nonfiction)|1700: Physician [[Gerard van Swieten (nonfiction)|Gerard van Swieten]] born.
File:Gerard_van_Swieten_Kaiserbild.jpg|link=Gerard van Swieten (nonfiction)|1700: Physician [[Gerard van Swieten (nonfiction)|Gerard van Swieten]] born.
File:Antoine Lavoisier.jpg|link=Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|1794: Chemist, aristocrat, and crime-fighter [[Antoine Lavoisier (nonfiction)|Antoine Lavoisier]] publishes his groundbreaking treatise on [[crimes against chemical constants]], introducing nomenclature and terminology used to this day.


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: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.
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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: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=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]]'' by H. G. Wells.
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.
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||2017: Elon Lages Lima dies ... mathematician whose research concerned differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry. Lima was an influential figure in the development of mathematics in Brazil. Pic.
||2017: Elon Lages Lima dies ... mathematician whose research concerned differential topology, algebraic topology, and differential geometry. Lima was an influential figure in the development of mathematics in Brazil. Pic.


File:Spiral Rings 2.jpg|link=Spiral Rings 2 (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Spiral Rings 2 (nonfiction)|Spiral Rings 2]]'' reveals "at least two hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.


||2017: Wu Wenjun dies ... mathematician and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), best known for the Wu's method of characteristic set. Pic: https://www.quantumcalculus.org/wenjun-wu-1919-2017/
||2017: Wu Wenjun dies ... mathematician and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), best known for the Wu's method of characteristic set. Pic: https://www.quantumcalculus.org/wenjun-wu-1919-2017/


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  • 1700: Physician Gerard van Swieten born.

    1700: Physician Gerard van Swieten born.

  • 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.

    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.

    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.

    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: Russian physicist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector — a primitive radio receiver.

  • 1895: First publication of The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

    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.

    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: 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: 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, and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian meets privately with Nikita Khrushchev and Gary Powers in a successful attempt to avoid nuclear war.

    1960: Actor, cryptographer, and alleged time-traveller Niles Cartouchian meets privately with Nikita Khrushchev and Gary Powers in a successful attempt to avoid nuclear war.

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