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||1502: Spanish Inquisition: The Catholic Monarchs issue a decree forcing Muslims in Granada to convert to Catholicism or leave Spain. | ||1502: Spanish Inquisition: The Catholic Monarchs issue a decree forcing Muslims in Granada to convert to Catholicism or leave Spain. | ||
||1628: Valentine Greatrakes born ... faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands. Pic. | |||
||1676: Abraham Bosse dies ... engraver and illustrator. | ||1676: Abraham Bosse dies ... engraver and illustrator. | ||
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||2005: YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos. | ||2005: YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos. | ||
||James Eells dies ... mathematician, who specialized in mathematical analysis. Pic. | ||2007: James Eells dies ... mathematician, who specialized in mathematical analysis. Pic. | ||
File:Alice and Niles Dancing.jpg|link=Alice and Niles Dancing|2017: Steganographic analysis of famed illustration ''[[Alice and Niles Dancing]]'' reveals three terabytes of love letters between mathematicians [[Alice Beta]] and [[Niles Cartouchian]]. | File:Alice and Niles Dancing.jpg|link=Alice and Niles Dancing|2017: Steganographic analysis of famed illustration ''[[Alice and Niles Dancing]]'' reveals three terabytes of love letters between mathematicians [[Alice Beta]] and [[Niles Cartouchian]]. | ||
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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.