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||1497 – The Bonfire of the Vanities occurs, during which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.
||1736 – Stephen Gray, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1666)
||1804 – John Deere, American blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company (d. 1886)
||1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar.
||Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (February 7, 1833, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Caribbean – September 12, 1900) was an American physician.
||Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (February 7, 1833, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Caribbean – September 12, 1900) was an American physician.
File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
File:John Tyndall 1878.jpg|link=John Tyndall (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist [[John Tyndall (nonfiction)|John Tyndall]] uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]] in less than seven minutes.
File:John Tyndall 1878.jpg|link=John Tyndall (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist [[John Tyndall (nonfiction)|John Tyndall]] uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]] in less than seven minutes.
File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.
File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.
||Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS[5] (7 February 1897 – 22 February 1984) was a British mathematician and codebreaker.
 
||Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS (b. 7 February 1897) was a British mathematician and codebreaker.
 
||1897 – Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist and engineer (b. 1847)
 
||1893 – Joseph Algernon Pearce, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1988)
 
File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
File:Émile Zola.jpg|link=Émile Zola (nonfiction)|1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist [[Émile Zola (nonfiction)|Émile Zola]] is brought to trial for libel for publishing ''J'accuse''.
File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] develops new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on [[Peano curve (nonfiction)|space-filling curves]].
File:Giuseppe Peano.jpg|link=Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|1901: Mathematician [[Giuseppe Peano (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Peano]] develops new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on [[Peano curve (nonfiction)|space-filling curves]].
File:Émile Zola.jpg|link=Émile Zola (nonfiction)|1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist [[Émile Zola (nonfiction)|Émile Zola]] is brought to trial for libel for publishing ''J'accuse''.
 
||1905 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1983) Neurotransmitters
 
||1906 – Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov, Russian engineer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company (d. 1984)
 
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1925: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1925: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1926 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2009)
||1926 – Bill Hoest, American cartoonist (d. 1988)
||1951 – Korean War: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers are butchered by South Korean forces.
||1960 – Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1903)
||Hans Adolph Rademacher (d. 7 February 1969, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA) was a German-born American mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory.
||1979 – Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
||1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU).
||1990 – Alan Perlis, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1922)
||2000 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician and politician (b. 1947)
||2013 – The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
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  • 1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

    1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.

  • 1878: Physicist John Tyndall uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to New Minneapolis in less than seven minutes.

    1878: Physicist John Tyndall uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to New Minneapolis in less than seven minutes.

  • 1889: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.

    1889: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.

  • 1897: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.

    1897: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.

  • 1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.

    1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.

  • 1901: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano develops new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on space-filling curves.

    1901: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano develops new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on space-filling curves.

  • 1925: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

    1925: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to fight crimes against mathematical constants.

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