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||Giuseppe Veronese (d. 7 May 1854) was an Italian mathematician. | ||Giuseppe Veronese (d. 7 May 1854) was an Italian mathematician. | ||
File:Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger.jpg|link=Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|1860: Electrical engineer and inventor [[Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|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. | |||
||File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1871: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to expose [[Loaded dice (nonfiction)|loaded dice]]. | ||File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1871: Engineer and physicist [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to expose [[Loaded dice (nonfiction)|loaded dice]]. |
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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: Judge 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.