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File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1926: Aviator [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1926: Aviator [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.


File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1927: Aviator, test pilot, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] engineer [[Henrietta Bolt]] provides protective services for [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] after threats against Lindbergh's life by the [[House of Malevecchio]].
File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|1927: Aviator, test pilot, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] engineer [[Henrietta Bolt]] provides protective services for [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] after threats against Lindbergh's life by agents of the [[House of Malevecchio]].


File:Mendel Sachs.jpg|link=Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|1927: Theoretical physicist [[Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|Mendel Sachs]] born. Sachs' work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.
File:Mendel Sachs.jpg|link=Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|1927: Theoretical physicist [[Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|Mendel Sachs]] born. Sachs' work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.

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  • 1771: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick born. Trevithick will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.

    1771: Engineer and explorer Richard Trevithick born. Trevithick will be an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, developing the first high-pressure steam engine, and building the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.

  • 1889: Cryptologist and author Herbert Yardley born. Yardley will found and lead the Black Chamber, a secret American government cryptographic organization which will break Japanese diplomatic codes, furnishing American negotiators with significant information during the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922.

    1889: Cryptologist and author Herbert Yardley born. Yardley will found and lead the Black Chamber, a secret American government cryptographic organization which will break Japanese diplomatic codes, furnishing American negotiators with significant information during the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-1922.

  • 1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.

    1926: Aviator Charles Lindbergh opens service on the newly designated 278-mile (447 km) Contract Air Mail Route #2 (CAM-2) to provide service between St. Louis and Chicago (Maywood Field) with two intermediate stops in Springfield and Peoria, Illinois.

  • 1927: Aviator, test pilot, and Gnomon algorithm engineer Henrietta Bolt provides protective services for Charles Lindbergh after threats against Lindbergh's life by agents of the House of Malevecchio.

    1927: Aviator, test pilot, and Gnomon algorithm engineer Henrietta Bolt provides protective services for Charles Lindbergh after threats against Lindbergh's life by agents of the House of Malevecchio.

  • 1927: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs born. Sachs' work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.

    1927: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs born. Sachs' work will include the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.

  • 1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. Heany will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

    1939: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney born. Heany will receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

  • 1952: Extract of Radium opens state-of-the-art nightclub in Langley, Virginia. The signature cocktail, known as an MKUltra, is made of equal parts Extract of Radium and Clandestiphrine with a twist of Malvoleum.

    1952: Extract of Radium opens state-of-the-art nightclub in Langley, Virginia. The signature cocktail, known as an MKUltra, is made of equal parts Extract of Radium and Clandestiphrine with a twist of Malvoleum.

  • 1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the secret drug research program Project MKUltra, intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control.

    1953: CIA director Allen Dulles authorizes the secret drug research program Project MKUltra, intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations and torture, in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control.

  • 1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.

    1954: Latest generation of Carnivorous dirigibles develops artificial intelligence, leading to the escape of at least a hundred and thirty dirigibles into the upper atmosphere.

  • 2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. Wheeler linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

    2008: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler dies. Wheeler linked the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coined the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".

  • 2009: Art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.

    2009: Art critic and alleged math criminal The Eel uses portable wormhole generator to escape The Nacreum.

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