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File:Thābit's Arabic translation of Apollonius' Conics.jpg|link=Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|901: Physician, astronomer, and mathematician [[Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|Thābit ibn Qurra]] dies. He made important discoveries in algebra, geometry, and astronomy; in astronomy, Thabit was one of the first reformers of the Ptolemaic system.
File:Thābit's Arabic translation of Apollonius' Conics.jpg|link=Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|901: Physician, astronomer, and mathematician [[Thābit ibn Qurra (nonfiction)|Thābit ibn Qurra]] dies. He made important discoveries in algebra, geometry, and astronomy; in astronomy, Thabit was one of the first reformers of the Ptolemaic system.


||1201 Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Persian scientist and writer (d. 1274). Pic: postage stamp.
||1201: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi born ... scientist and writer. Pic: postage stamp.


||1535 Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German magician, astrologer, and theologian (b. 1486). Pic.
||1535: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa dies ... magician, astrologer, and theologian. Pic.


||1547: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī born ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. Pic:  tapestry?
||1547: Bahāʾ al‐Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al‐ʿĀmilī born ... scholar, philosopher, architect, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He was one of the earliest astronomers in the Islamic world to suggest the possibility of the Earth's movement prior to the spread of the Copernican theory. Pic:  tapestry?
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File:Blaise_de_Vigenère.png|link=Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|1583: Cryptographer, diplomat, and crime-fighter [[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|Blaise de Vigenère]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to invent a cipher which is resistant to [[mathematical crimes]].  
File:Blaise_de_Vigenère.png|link=Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|1583: Cryptographer, diplomat, and crime-fighter [[Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction)|Blaise de Vigenère]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to invent a cipher which is resistant to [[mathematical crimes]].  


||1626 Francesco Redi, Italian physician (d. 1697). Pic.
||1626: Francesco Redi born ... physician. Pic.
   
   
||Jacques Cassini (b. 18 February 1677) was a French astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Pic.
||1677: Jacques Cassini born ... astronomer, son of the famous Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini. Pic.


||1745 Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827) Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (b. 18 February 1745) was an Italian physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane.  
||1745: Alessandro Volta born ... physicist, chemist, and a pioneer of electricity and power, who is credited as the inventor of the electrical battery and the discoverer of methane. Pic.


||1766 A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.
||1766: A mutiny by captive Malagasy begins at sea on the slave ship Meermin, leading to the ship's destruction on Cape Agulhas in present-day South Africa and the recapture of the instigators.


||1788: John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713). Pic.
||1788: John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713). Pic.
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File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1809: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] uses [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] to power new type of [[scrying engine]].
File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1809: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] uses [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] to power new type of [[scrying engine]].


||1838 Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1916)
||1838: Ernst Mach born ... physicist and philosopher.


||Jérôme Eugène Coggia (b. 18 February 1849) was a 19th-century French astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets
||1849: Jérôme Eugène Coggia born ... astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets


File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1851: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.


||Baron Wilhelm von Biela (d. February 18, 1856) was a German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer. Pic.
||1856: Baron Wilhelm von Biela dies ... military officer and amateur astronomer. Pic.


||1871 Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
||1871: Harry Brearley born ... inventor.


||George Udny Yule (b. 18 February 1871), usually known as Udny Yule, was a British statistician. He will make important contributions to the theory and practice of correlation, regression, and association, as well as to time series analysis. He pioneered the use of preferential attachment stochastic processes to explain the origin of power law distribution. The Yule distribution, a discrete power law, is named after him. Pic.
||1871: George Udny Yule born ... statistician. He will make important contributions to the theory and practice of correlation, regression, and association, as well as to time series analysis. He pioneered the use of preferential attachment stochastic processes to explain the origin of power law distribution. The Yule distribution, a discrete power law, is named after him. Pic.


||1880 Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812)
||1880: Nikolay Zinin dies ... organic chemist.


File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] publishes new theory of mathematical analysis with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.  
File:Karl Weierstrass.jpg|link=Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Weierstrass (nonfiction)|Karl Weierstrass]] publishes new theory of mathematical analysis with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.  
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File:Marius Sophus Lie.jpg|link=Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|1899: Mathematician and academic [[Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|Marius Sophus Lie]] dies. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
File:Marius Sophus Lie.jpg|link=Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|1899: Mathematician and academic [[Marius Sophus Lie (nonfiction)|Marius Sophus Lie]] dies. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations.


||Eugenio Beltrami (d. 18 February 1900) was an Italian mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition.  
||1900: Eugenio Beltrami dies ... mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition.  


||Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III (b. 1919) was an American mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science.
||1919: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III born ... mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science.


File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] discovers Pluto.
File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] discovers Pluto.
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File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which transform theoretical physics into practical physics.  
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which transform theoretical physics into practical physics.  


||1931 Johnny Hart, American cartoonist, co-created The Wizard of Id (d. 2007)
||1931: Johnny Hart born ... cartoonist, co-created The Wizard of Id.


||1943 World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
||1943: World War II: The Nazis arrest the members of the White Rose movement.


||1955 Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
||1955: Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.


||Henry Norris Russell (d. February 18, 1957) was an American astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). Pic.
||1957: Henry Norris Russell dies ... astronomer who, along with Ejnar Hertzsprung, developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (1910). Pic.


||Joseph Gilbert Hamilton (d. February 18, 1957) was an American professor of Medical Physics, Experimental Medicine, General Medicine, and Experimental Radiology as well as director (1948-1957) of the Crocker Laboratory, part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
||1957: Joseph Gilbert Hamilton dies ... professor of Medical Physics, Experimental Medicine, General Medicine, and Experimental Radiology as well as director (1948-1957) of the Crocker Laboratory, part of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.


||1960: Hermann Pokorny dies. He was a World War I Austro-Hungarian Army cryptologist whose work with Russian ciphers contributed substantially to Central Powers victories over Russia.  Pic.
||1960: Hermann Pokorny dies. He was a World War I Austro-Hungarian Army cryptologist whose work with Russian ciphers contributed substantially to Central Powers victories over Russia.  Pic.


||1964 Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)
||1964: Joseph-Armand Bombardier dies ... inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc.


File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1967: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling. Oppenheimer has been called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project.
File:J. Robert Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|1967: American physicist and academic [[J. Robert Oppenheimer (nonfiction)|J. Robert Oppenheimer]] dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling. Oppenheimer has been called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in the Manhattan Project.


||1970 The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
||1970: The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.


||1973 Frank Costello, Italian-American gangster (b. 1891)
||1973: Frank Costello dies ... gangster.


||1977 The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.
||1977: The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.


||1981 Jack Northrop, American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation (b. 1895) Flying wing
||1981: Jack Northrop dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation ... Flying wing.


||2001 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
||2001: FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.


File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|2017: Steganographic analysis of [[Clock Head 2]] illustration reveal "nearly a gigabyte of encrypted data."
File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|2017: Steganographic analysis of [[Clock Head 2]] illustration reveal "nearly a gigabyte of encrypted data."

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