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||1349 – Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg. | ||1349 – Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg. | ||
||Leon Battista Alberti (b. February 14, 1404) was an Italian humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man. Pic (engraving). | |||
||1468 – Johannes Werner, German priest and mathematician (d. 1522) | ||1468 – Johannes Werner, German priest and mathematician (d. 1522) | ||
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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.
1904: Engineer and inventor Charles William Oatley born. He will develop of one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes.
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.
1944: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson uses thermionic theory to compute optimal Valentine's Day card.
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 compose state-of-the-art Valentine's Day cards.
1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
2017: Steganographic analysis of famed illustration Alice and Niles Dancing reveals three terabytes of love letters between mathematicians Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.