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File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory [[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village". | File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory [[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village". | ||
||1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people. | ||1919 – The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people. | ||
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||1969 – At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon. | ||1969 – At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon. | ||
File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2016: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] begins consuming radioactive chemical waste at the [[Hanford Site (nonfiction)|Hanford Site]]. | |||
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1810: Chemist and physicist Henri Victor Regnault born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.
1910: Physicist John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within giant novelty Fleming tube.
1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
2016: Synthetic organism Ultravore begins consuming radioactive chemical waste at the Hanford Site.