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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:Robert Fulton.jpg|link=Robert Fulton (nonfiction)|1807: [[Robert Fulton (nonfiction)|Robert Fulton]]'s North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. | ||
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||1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France. | ||1908 – Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France. | ||
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1807: Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
1929: Captain and pilot Francis Gary Powers born.
1930: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde begins shooting his film 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.