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1855: Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
1943: Mathematician David Hilbert dies. He discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
1949: ENIAC programmed to select optimal Valentine's Day gift.
1950: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky dies. He was one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
1951: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Richard Feynman uses principles of quantum electrodynamics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
2009: Record attendance for Valentine's Day performance by Rhizolith Group.

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 File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1950: Physicist and engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]] dies. He was one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
+File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1951:  Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] uses principles of quantum electrodynamics to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 ||1956 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.