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|File:Gnotilus-fighting-Heracles.jpg|link=Heracles (nonfiction)|525 BC: Supervillain [[Gnotilus]] defends himself after sneak attack by [[Heracles (nonfiction)|Heracles]].


||1564 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright, poet and translator (d. 1593)
File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1616: Physicist and engineer [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.
 
||1616 – Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.


File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|1638: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.  
File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|1638: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.  


File:Niels Steensen.png|link=Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|1648: [[Niels Steensen (nonfiction)|Niels Steensen]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to locate fossils.
File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1786: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.  
 
||1718 – Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Norwegian bishop, botanist and zoologist (d. 1773) - first to suggest Northern lights caused by the sun
 
||1786 – François Arago, French mathematician and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (d. 1853)
 
||1799 – Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, French physicist and engineer (d. 1864)
 
||1842 – Camille Flammarion, French astronomer and author (d. 1925)
 
||1880 – Kenneth Edgeworth, Irish astronomer (d. 1972)
 
||1903 – Richard Jordan Gatling, American engineer, invented the Gatling gun (b. 1818)
 
||1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
 
||1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
 
||1931 – Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
 
||1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
 
||1936 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
 
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1963: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series nominated for [[Manhattan Project]] award.
 
||1966 – Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
 
||1985 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
 
||1987 – Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
 
||1993 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.


||1995 – The UK's oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapses after a rogue securities broker Nick Leeson loses $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.
File:Angelo_Secchi.jpg|link=Angelo Secchi (nonfiction)|1878: Astronomer and Jesuit priest [[Angelo Secchi (nonfiction)|Angelo Secchi]] dies. Secchi was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.


File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies.  He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|2005: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] dies.  He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.


File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|2012: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
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  • 1616: Physicist and engineer Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.

    1616: Physicist and engineer Galileo Galilei is formally banned by the Roman Catholic Church from teaching or defending the view that the earth orbits the sun.

  • 1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.

    1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.

  • 1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.

    1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.

  • 1878: Astronomer and Jesuit priest Angelo Secchi dies. Secchi was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.

    1878: Astronomer and Jesuit priest Angelo Secchi dies. Secchi was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.

  • 2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

    2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

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