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||1497 – Philip Melanchthon, German astronomer, theologian, and academic (d. 1560)


||1514 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian cartographer and instrument maker (d. 1574)
||1514: Georg Joachim Rheticus born ... cartographer and instrument maker. Pic: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5583107.Georg_Joachim_Rheticus


File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] dies.
||||File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] dies.


||Simon Stevin enrolls at Leiden University under the name ''Simon Stevinus Brugensis''. Stevin is listed in the University's registers until 1590; apparently he never graduated; nonetheless, he will make contributions to a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical.
||1583: Simon Stevin enrolls at Leiden University under the name ''Simon Stevinus Brugensis''. Stevin is listed in the University's registers until 1590; apparently he never graduated; nonetheless, he will make contributions to a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical. Pic.


File:François Ravaillac.jpg|link=François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|1610: Regicide [[François Ravaillac (nonfiction)|François Ravaillac]] drinks [[Extract of Radium]] for the first time.
||1615: Galileo sends Piero Dini a modified copy of his letter to Castelli which had been the basis of an accusation of heresy by Nicolo Lorini to the Holy office in Rome. He included a cover letter on this date downplaying some of the points in his original and asked Dini to show it to Cardial Bellarmine, the chief theologian of the church. *Brody & Brody, The Science Class You Wish You Had. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-16.html Pic. TO_DO


||1698 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1758)
File:Pierre Bouguer.jpg|link=Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|1698: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer [[Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|Pierre Bouguer]] born. He will be known as "the father of naval architecture".


||1727 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian botanist, chemist, and mycologist (d. 1817)
||1727: Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin born ... botanist, chemist, and mycologist.


||1740 – Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813)
||1740: Giambattista Bodoni born ... publisher and engraver.


||1802 – Phineas Quimby, American mystic and philosopher (d. 1866)
||||File:Richard Mead.jpg|link=Richard Mead (nonfiction)|1754: Physician and astrologer [[Richard Mead (nonfiction)|Richard Mead]] dies.  His work, ''A Short Discourse concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Method to be used to prevent it'' (1720), was of historic importance in the understanding of transmissible diseases.
 
||1790: Adrien-Jean-Pierre Thilorier born ... inventor who was the first person to produce solid carbon dioxide ("dry ice"). Pic: machine.
 
||1802: Phineas Quimby born ... mystic and philosopher.
 
||1821: Heinrich Barth born ... explorer and scholar ... one of the greatest of the European explorers of Africa, as his scholarly preparation, ability to speak and write Arabic, learning African languages, and character meant that he carefully documented the details of the cultures he visited. He was among the first to comprehend the uses of oral history of peoples. Pic.


File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] born.
File:Francis Galton 1850s.jpg|link=Francis Galton (nonfiction)|1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician [[Francis Galton (nonfiction)|Francis Galton]] born.


||Wilhelm Joseph Grailich (b. 16 February 1829) was an Austrian physicist, mineralogist and crystallographer.
||1829: Wilhelm Joseph Grailich born ... physicist, mineralogist and crystallographer. Pic search:  Wilhelm Joseph Grailich
 
||1834: Ernst Haeckel born ... biologist, physician, and philosopher. Pic.


||1834 – Ernst Haeckel, German biologist, physician, and philosopher (d. 1919)
||1843: Henry M. Leland born ... machinist, inventor, engineer, automotive entrepreneur and founded of Cadillac and Lincoln. Pic.


||1874 – Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender.
||1874: Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender.


||1878 – Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator (d. 1951)
||1878: Pamela Colman Smith born ... occultist and illustrator.


||1878 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1920)
||1878: James Colosimo born ... mob boss.


||1891 – Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic (d. 1967)
||1891: Hans F. K. Günther born ... eugenicist and academic. Pic.


||1906 – Vera Menchik, Russian-English chess player (d. 1944)
||1892: Thomas Archer Hirst dies ... mathematician, specialising in geometry, particularly the Cremona transformations. Pic.
 
||1892: Henry Walter Bates dies ... geographer, biologist, and explorer ... mimicry. Pic.
 
||1903: Beniamino Segre born ... mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to algebraic geometry and one of the founders of finite geometry. Pic.
 
||1906: Vera Menchik born ... chess player.


||File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] dies.  She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.
||File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] dies.  She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.


||Friedrich Hans Beck (b. 16 February 1927) was a German physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness.
||||File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|1922: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] born. He will provide the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
 
|link=Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|1923: [[Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|Marjorie Rice]] born ... amateur mathematician most famous for her discoveries in geometry. Pic search.
 
||||File:Friedrich Reinitzer.jpg|link=Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|1927: Botanist and chemist [[Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|Friedrich Reinitzer]] dies. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, Reinitzer discovered the properties of what would later be called liquid crystals; although the discovery attracted attention, interest soon faded as no practical uses were found at the time.
 
||1927: Friedrich Beck born ... physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness. Pic.
 
||1932: Gustave-Auguste Ferrié dies ... radio pioneer and army general. Pic.
 
||1937: Wallace Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon. Pic (cool!).


||1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
||1940: World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.


||1940 – World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
||1956: Meghnad Saha dies ... astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. Pic.


||Meghnad Saha FRS (d. 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars.
||1958: Charles John Read born ... mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in the 1980s on the invariant subspace problem, where he constructed operators with only trivial invariant subspaces on particular Banach spaces Pic.


File:The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician and crime-fighter (left) stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] (right) from infiltrating [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the U.S. Navy submarine circumnavigation of the globe.
File:The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[The Eel]] (left) stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] (right) from infiltrating [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the U.S. Navy submarine circumnavigation of the globe.


File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
File:Operation Sandblast track.jpg|link=Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.


||1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
||1961: Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
 
||1963: Friedrich Dessauer dies ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search.
 
||1968: In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
 
||1974: John Garand dies ... engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle. Pic.
 
||1976: Lyudmila Keldysh dies ... mathematician known for set theory and geometric topology. Pic: https://www.peoplemaven.com/p/8w2rB0/lyudmila-keldysh
 
||1977: Rózsa Péter dies ... mathematician and logician. She is best known as the "founding mother of recursion theory". Pic.
 
||1978: The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
 
||1980: Erich Hückel dies ... physicist and chemist. Pic.
 
||1980: Allen Shenstone dies ...physicist. He earned bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge. After a brief stint as a junior faculty member at the University of Toronto, he returned to Princeton, where he was a professor in the Department of Physics 1925–62. He chaired the department 1949–60. He worked primarily in the field of atomic spectroscopy. Pic search.
 
||1980: Edward Copson dies ... mathematician known for his studies in classical analysis, differential and integral equations, and their use in mathematical physics. After graduating from Oxford University with a B.A. degree in 1922, he moved to Scotland where he spent the nearly all of his career. His first book, The Theory of Functions of a Complex Variable (1935) was immediately successful. He was a co-author for his next book, The Mathematical Theory of Huygens' Principle (1939). By 1975, he had published four more books, on asymptotic expansions, metric spaces and partial differential equations. Many of the papers he wrote bridged mathematics and physics, of which his last showed his interest in astrophysics, Electrostatics in a Gravitational Field (1978) which was relevant to Black Holes. Pic: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Thomas_Copson
 
||1991: Nicaraguan Contra leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.


File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to visualizes [[Hamangia scrying engine|Hamangia figurines]], discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1997: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] dies.  She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.


||1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
||1997: Leon Bankoff dies ... dentist, mathematician and Esperantist. He was responsible for the publication of some 300 top problems in the area of plane geometry, particularly Morley's trisector theorem, and the arbelos of Archimedes. Among his discoveries with the arbelos was the Bankoff circle, which is equal in area to Archimedes' twin circles. Pic: http://math.fau.edu/yiu/AEG2013/BankoffCMJ.pdf


||1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
||1999: Herbert (Bert) Sydney Green dies ... physicist. Green was a doctoral student of the Nobel Laureate Max Born at Edinburgh, with whom he was involved in the development of the modern kinetic theory. Green is the letter "G" in the BBGKY hierarchy. Pic.


||1977 – Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905)
||1995: Martin Kneser dies ... mathematician. His name has been given to Kneser graphs, which he studied in 1955.


||1980 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (b. 1895)
||File:Harry Hinsley.jpg|link=Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|1998: Historian and cryptanalyst [[Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|Francis Harry Hinsley]] dies. Hinsley worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the war.


||Allen Goodrich Shenstone, OBE, MC (d. February 16, 1980) was a Canadian physicist. He earned bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge. After a brief stint as a junior faculty member at the University of Toronto, he returned to Princeton, where he was a professor in the Department of Physics 1925–62. He chaired the department 1949–60. He worked primarily in the field of atomic spectroscopy
||2009: Konrad Dannenberg dies ... rocket pioneer and member of the German rocket team brought to the United States after World War II. Pic.


||1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
||2010: William Edwin Gordon dies ... physicist and astronomer. He is referred to as the "father of the Arecibo Observatory". Pic.


||1997 – Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist and academic (b. 1912)
||2011: Neal R. Amundson dies ... chemical engineer and mathematician. Amundson was considered one of the most prominent chemical engineering educators and researchers in the United States. Pic.


||Martin Kneser (d. 16 February 2004) was a German mathematician. His name has been given to Kneser graphs, which he studied in 1955.
||2020: Larry Tesler dies ... computer scientist who worked in the field of human–computer interaction. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo! While at PARC, Tesler's work included Smalltalk, the first dynamic object-oriented programming language, and Gypsy, the first word processor with a graphical user interface for the Xerox Alto. During this, along with colleague Tim Mott, Tesler developed the idea of copy and paste functionality and the idea of modeless software. While at Apple, Tesler worked on the Apple Lisa and the Apple Newton, and helped to develop Object Pascal and its use in application programming toolkits including MacApp. Pic.


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  • 1698: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer born. He will be known as "the father of naval architecture".

    1698: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer born. He will be known as "the father of naval architecture".

  • 1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.

    1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.

  • 1960: Mathematician and crime-fighter The Eel (left) stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter (right) from infiltrating Operation Sandblast, the U.S. Navy submarine circumnavigation of the globe.

    1960: Mathematician and crime-fighter The Eel (left) stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter (right) from infiltrating Operation Sandblast, the U.S. Navy submarine circumnavigation of the globe.

  • 1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

    1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

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