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|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: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]]. | ||
||Jerrold Eldon Marsden (b. August 17, 1942), was a mathematician. H was one of the world leading authorities in mathematical and theoretical classical mechanics. Marsden laid much of the foundation for symplectic topology. Pic. | |||
||1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program. | ||1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program. |
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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.
1904: Physicist, chemist, and crime-fighter Marie Curie condemns Extract of Radium as "a terrible hazard to health and sanity."
1927: Mathematician Erik Ivar Fredholm dies. He introduced and analyzed a class of integral equations now called Fredholm equations. Fredholm's work on integral equations and operator theory anticipated the theory of Hilbert spaces.
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.