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File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] break their tethers, eat over two hundred head of cattle.
File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] break their tethers, eat over two hundred head of cattle.
File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1997: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1997: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|2001: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|2001: [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to counteract effects of [[geometry solvent]].
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1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines, marking the debut of the cinema.

1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.


1663 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)