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||1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.


File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] born.
File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] dies. Gauss had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.


||1603 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
File:Émile Zola.jpg|link=Émile Zola (nonfiction)|1898: [[Émile Zola (nonfiction)|Émile Zola]] is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus]].
 
||1603: François Viète, French mathematician dies. His work on new algebra was an important step towards modern algebra, due to its innovative use of letters as parameters in equations.
 
||1739 – At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer.
 
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1742: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian.
 
File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
 
||1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
 
||1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
 
||Derrick Henry Lehmer (b. February 23, 1905) was an American mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic.
 
||Jean-Gaston Darboux FAS MIF FRS FRSE (d. 23 February 1917) was a French mathematician.
 
||1924 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
 
||1927 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.


File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1927: German theoretical physicist [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1927: German theoretical physicist [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.


File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1940: [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] program accidentally generates new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1940: The '''[[ENIAC (SETI)]]''' program accidentally generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.


File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1941: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced and isolated by [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg]].
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1941: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced and isolated by [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg]].


||1942 – World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California.
File:Self portrait (25 February 2023) 20230225 171906.jpg|link=Self portrait (25 February 2023)|2023: '''[[Self portrait (25 February 2023)]]'''.
 
||1944 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863)
 
|File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1964: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] republished using latest [[high-energy literature]] techniques.
 
||1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
 
||2012 – David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1924)
 
File:Enter or Exit midsize sketch.jpg|link=|2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sketch reveals "at least ninety-eight percent" of ''[[Game of Chance (Gnomon Chronicles)|Game of Chance]]''.


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