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File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1521: Polymath [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to prevent [[Gnotilus]] from secreting [[geometry solvent]].
File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1521: Polymath [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to prevent [[Gnotilus]] from secreting [[geometry solvent]].
File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|1882: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] born. He will become famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|1882: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] born. He will become famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
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]].

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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)