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File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1562: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new type of [[scrying engine]]. | |File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1562: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, invents new type of [[scrying engine]]. | ||
File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1929: Captain and pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] born. | File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1929: Captain and pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Francis Gary Powers]] born. | ||
File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1933: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]]. | |||
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1930: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] releases ''[[Spy Pilot]]''. | |||
|File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1933: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]]. | |||
|File:Skip Digits.jpg|link=Skip Digits|1969: During a command performance at the White House, musician and alleged math criminal [[Skip Digits]] gives the first public demonstration of the [[math virus]] which will later be known as the [[Watergate Scandal (virus)|Watergate Scandal virus]]. | |||
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus). | File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus). | ||
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1996: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] develops self-awareness, | |||
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1996: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] develops self-awareness, spontaneous seeks out and fights [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
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1929: Captain and pilot Francis Gary Powers born.
1930: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde releases Spy Pilot.
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 launched from Earth. It will become the first successful soft landing on another planet (Venus).
1996: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, spontaneous seeks out and fights crimes against mathematical constants.