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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.


||1404: Leon Battista Alberti born ... humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher and cryptographer; he epitomised the Renaissance Man. Pic (engraving).
File:Leon Battista Alberti (presumed self-portrait).jpg|link=Leon Battista Alberti (nonfiction)|1404: Polymath [[Leon Battista Alberti (nonfiction)|Leon Battista Alberti]] born. Alberti will epitomize the Renaissance man: humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer.


||1468: Johannes Werner born ... priest and mathematician.
||1468: Johannes Werner born ... priest and mathematician. TO_DO !!!


||1490: Valentin Friedland born ... scholar and educationist of the Reformation.
||1490: Valentin Friedland born ... scholar and educationist of the Reformation.
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||1676: Abraham Bosse dies ... engraver and illustrator.
||1676: Abraham Bosse dies ... engraver and illustrator.


File:John_Hadley.jpg|link=John Hadley (nonfiction)|1744: Mathematician [[John Hadley (nonfiction)|John Hadley]] dies. Hadley laid claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claimed the same. He also developed ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes.
File:John_Hadley.jpg|link=John Hadley (nonfiction)|1744: Mathematician [[John Hadley (nonfiction)|John Hadley]] dies. Hadley laid claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claimed the same. Hadley also developed ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes.


||1779: Captain, cartographer, and explorer James Cook killed by Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the island of Hawaii.
||1779: Captain, cartographer, and explorer James Cook killed by Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the island of Hawaii.
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||1912: The US Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
||1912: The US Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
||1955: Irvin Sol Cohen dies (suicide) - mathematician at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who worked on local rings. In his thesis he proved the Cohen structure theorem for complete Noetherian local rings. Pic search. No DOB.


||1917: Herbert A. Hauptman born ... mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1917: Herbert A. Hauptman born ... mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1920: Engineer and computer scientist J. Halcombe "Hal" Laning Jr. born.  Laning invented an algebraic compiler called George (also known as the Laning and Zierler system after the authors of the published paper) that ran on the MIT Whirlwind, the first real-time computer. Pic search.


||1924: The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
||1924: The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
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File:David Hilbert.jpg|link=David Hilbert (nonfiction)|1943: Mathematician [[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]] dies. He discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
File:David Hilbert.jpg|link=David Hilbert (nonfiction)|1943: Mathematician [[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]] dies. He discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
File:Owen Richardson.jpg|link=Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|1944: Physicist and academic [[Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|Owen Willans Richardson]] uses thermionic theory to compute optimal Valentine's Day card.


||1945: World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
||1945: World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.
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|File:ENIAC.jpg|link=ENIAC (nonfiction)|1949: [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] programmed to select optimal Valentine's Day gift.
|File:ENIAC.jpg|link=ENIAC (nonfiction)|1949: [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] programmed to select optimal Valentine's Day gift.


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:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1950: Physicist and engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]] dies. Jansky discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way while investigating sources of static that might interfere with radio voice transmissions, and is considered 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 compose state-of-the-art Valentine's Day cards.


||1955: Mathematician Irvin Sol Cohen commits suicide. In his thesis he proved the Cohen structure theorem for complete Noetherian local rings. In 1946 he proved the unmixedness theorem for power series rings. As a result, Cohen–Macaulay rings are named after him and F. S. Macaulay. Cohen and Seidenberg published their Cohen–Seidenberg theorems, also known as the going-up and going-down theorems. No birth date. No pic online.
||1955: Mathematician Irvin Sol Cohen commits suicide. In his thesis he proved the Cohen structure theorem for complete Noetherian local rings. In 1946 he proved the unmixedness theorem for power series rings. As a result, Cohen–Macaulay rings are named after him and F. S. Macaulay. Cohen and Seidenberg published their Cohen–Seidenberg theorems, also known as the going-up and going-down theorems. No birth date. No pic online.
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||1989: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.
||1989: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.


File:Pale Blue Dot.png|link=Pale Blue Dot (nonfiction)|1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as ''[[Pale Blue Dot (nonfiction)|Pale Blue Dot]]''.
File:Pale Blue Dot.png|link=Pale Blue Dot (nonfiction)|1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the ''[[Pale Blue Dot (nonfiction)|Pale Blue Dot]]'' photograph of planet Earth from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU). Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel.


||1991: José Ádem dies ... mathematician who worked in algebraic topology, and proved the Ádem relations between Steenrod squares. Pic.
||1991: José Ádem dies ... mathematician who worked in algebraic topology, and proved the Ádem relations between Steenrod squares. Pic.
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||2007: 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: Routine annual steganographic analysis of famed illustration ''[[Alice and Niles Dancing]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least a megabyte" of love letters between Gnomon algorithm engineers [[Alice Beta]] and [[Niles Cartouchian]].


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  • 1404: Polymath Leon Battista Alberti born. Alberti will epitomize the Renaissance man: humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer.

    1404: Polymath Leon Battista Alberti born. Alberti will epitomize the Renaissance man: humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, cryptographer.

  • 1744: Mathematician John Hadley dies. Hadley laid claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claimed the same. Hadley also developed ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes.

    1744: Mathematician John Hadley dies. Hadley laid claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claimed the same. Hadley also developed ways to make precision aspheric and parabolic objective mirrors for reflecting telescopes.

  • 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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

  • 1950: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky dies. Jansky discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way while investigating sources of static that might interfere with radio voice transmissions, and is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.

    1950: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky dies. Jansky discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way while investigating sources of static that might interfere with radio voice transmissions, and is considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.

  • 1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the Pale Blue Dot photograph of planet Earth from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU). Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel.

    1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the Pale Blue Dot photograph of planet Earth from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU). Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel.

  • 2017: Routine annual steganographic analysis of famed illustration Alice and Niles Dancing unexpectedly reveals "at least a megabyte" of love letters between Gnomon algorithm engineers Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.

    2017: Routine annual steganographic analysis of famed illustration Alice and Niles Dancing unexpectedly reveals "at least a megabyte" of love letters between Gnomon algorithm engineers Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.

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