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| | File:Jacques de Vaucanson.jpg|link=Jacques de Vaucanson|1709: Inventor and artist [[Jacques de Vaucanson (nonficction)|Jacques de Vaucanson]] born. Vaucanson created impressive and innovative automata; was the first man to design an automatic loom; and built the first all-metal lathe. |
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| ||303: Galerius publishes his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire. Pic (portrait bust).
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| ||1582: With the papal bull ''Inter gravissimas'', Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar. Pic.
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| File:Johannes Weyer.jpg|link=Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|1588: Physician and occultist [[Johann Weyer (nonfiction)|Johann Weyer]] dies. Weyer criticized the ''Malleus Maleficarum'' and witch hunting by the Christian and Civil authorities; he declared that not only were examples of magic largely incredible, but that the crime of witchcraft was literally impossible, so that anyone who confessed to the crime was likely to be suffering some mental disturbance. | |
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| ||1616: Inquisition qualifiers deny teaching of Heliocentric view: On February 19, 1616, the Inquisition had asked a commission of theologians, known as qualifiers, about the propositions of the heliocentric view of the universe. On February 24 the Qualifiers delivered their unanimous report: the idea that the Sun is stationary is "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture..."; while the Earth's movement "receives the same judgement in philosophy and ... in regard to theological truth it is at least erroneous in faith." https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-24.html Pic. TO_DO
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| Jacques de Vaucanson|link=Jacques de Vaucanson|1709: Inventor and artist [[Jacques de Vaucanson (nonficction)|Jacques de Vaucanson]]. Vaucanson created impressive and innovative automata; was the first man to design an automatic loom; and built the first all-metal lathe. | |
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| ||1721: John McKinly born ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware. Pic search.
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| ||1743: Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet born ... naturalist, botanist and patron of the natural sciences. Pic (stirring).
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| File:An Election Entertainment - William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1755: Artist and social critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]]’s satirical print, "An Election Entertainment," is published. It contains a Tory sign bearing the inscription "Give us our eleven days." This refers to the fact that eleven dates were removed from the calendar when England converted to the Gregorian calendar on September 14, 1752. | | File:An Election Entertainment - William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1755: Artist and social critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]]’s satirical print, "An Election Entertainment," is published. It contains a Tory sign bearing the inscription "Give us our eleven days." This refers to the fact that eleven dates were removed from the calendar when England converted to the Gregorian calendar on September 14, 1752. |
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| ||1799: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg dies ... scientist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. Pic.
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| ||1803: In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the principle of judicial review.
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| ||1809: London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute. Pics.
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| File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen. | | File:Henry Cavendish.jpg|link=Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher [[Henry Cavendish (nonfiction)|Henry Cavendish]] dies. He discovered "inflammable air", later named hydrogen. |
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| ||1812: Étienne-Louis Malus dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic.
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| ||1815: Robert Fulton dies ... engineer. Pic.
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| ||1825: Thomas Bowdler dies ... physician and philanthropist. Best known for publishing The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays. The work, edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler, was intended to provide a version of Shakespeare that was more appropriate than the original for 19th-century women and children. Pic: title page.
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| ||1841: John Philip Holland born ... engineer who developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned by the US Navy, and the first Royal Navy submarine, ''Holland 1''. Pic.
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| ||1848: Andrew Inglis Clark born ... engineer, lawyer, and politician. Pic.
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| ||1856: Nikolai Lobachevsky dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
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| File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | | File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] dies. He was an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. |
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| ||1854: A Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution. Pic.
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| ||1878: Felix Bernstein born ... mathematician known for proving the Schröder–Bernstein theorem central in set theory in 1896, and less well known for demonstrating the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus in 1924 through statistical analysis. Pic.
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| ||1893: Tokushichi Mishima born ... metallurgist. He discovered that aluminum restored magnetism to non-magnetic nickel steel. He invented MKM steel, which was an extremely inexpensive magnetic substance that has been used in many applications. It is also closely related to the modern Alnico magnets. Pic.
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| ||1898: Kurt Tank born ... pilot and engineer. He was responsible for the creation of several important Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Pic.
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| ||1908: Telford Taylor born ... American lawyer best known for his role as Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, his opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, and his outspoken criticism of U.S. actions during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s. Pic (impressive).
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| ||1910: Karl Hugo Strunz born ... mineralogist. He is best known for creating the Nickel-Strunz classification, the ninth edition of which was published together with Ernest Henry Nickel. Pic search.
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| ||1917: World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States. Pic.
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| ||1921: Frederic Gordon Foster born ... computational engineer, statistician, professor, and college dean who is widely known for devising, in 1965, a nine-digit code upon which the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is based. No pic, none.
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| ||1933: Judah Folkman born ... physician and biologist. He researched tumor angiogenesis, the process by which a tumor attracts blood vessels to nourish itself and sustain its existence; his worke has led to the discovery of a number of therapies based on inhibiting or stimulating neovascularization. Pic search.
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| ||1939: Jamal Nazrul Islam born ... physicist and cosmologist. Pic.
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| ||1942: Struma disaster: the sinking of MV ''Struma'', that had been trying to take nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to Mandatory Palestine. Pic.
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| ||1968: Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Hué.
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| ||1981: Georgi Nadjakov dies. He investigated photoconducting properties of sulphur. He prepared the permanent photoelectret state of matter for the first time and published his paper in 1937 and 1938. He called[citation needed] the electret discovered by Mototaro Eguchi in 1919, thermoelectret and the electret discovered by him in 1937, photoelectret. Pic.
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| ||1989: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa and offers a USD $3 million bounty for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. Pic.
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| ||1993: Chaim Leib Pekeris dies ... physicist and mathematician. He made notable contributions to geophysics and the spectral theory of many-electron atoms, in particular the Helium atom. He was also one of the designers of the first computer in Israel, WEIZAC. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Prof-Chaim-Leib-Pekeris/6000000026350827675
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| ||1997: Wolfgang Heinrich Johannes Fuchs dies ... mathematician specializing in complex analysis. His main area of research was Nevanlinna theory. Pic search.
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| File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] dies. He is known as "the father of information theory". | | File:Claude Shannon.jpg|link=Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist [[Claude Shannon (nonfiction)|Claude Shannon]] dies. He is known as "the father of information theory". |
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| ||2007: Japan launches its fourth spy satellite, stepping up its ability to monitor potential threats such as North Korea.
| | File:America's Got Talents.jpg|link=America's Got Talents|2006: Premiere of '''''[[America's Got Talents]]''''', a televised American weights and measures competition. |
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| File:Katherine_Johnson_at_NASA_(1966).jpg|link=Katherine Johnson (nonfiction)|2020: Physicist and mathematician [[Katherine Johnson (nonfiction)|Katherine Johnson]] dies. Johnson computed orbital mechanics as a NASA employee which were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights; she also helped pioneer the use of computers to perform these tasks. | |
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