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||1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii. | ||1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii. | ||
||1819 – Christopher Latham Sholes, American journalist and politician, invented the typewriter (d. 1890) | ||1819 – Christopher Latham Sholes, American journalist and politician, invented the typewriter (d. 1890) Christopher Latham Sholes[2] (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard,[3] and along with Frank Haven Hall, Samuel W. Soule, Carlos Glidden and John Pratt, has been contended as one of the inventors of the first typewriter in the United States. | ||
||1831 – Henry Maudslay, English engineer (b. 1771) Machine tools | ||1831 – Henry Maudslay, English engineer (b. 1771) Machine tools | ||
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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.
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.
1949: ENIAC programmed to select optimal Valentine's Day gift.
1950: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky dies. He was one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.
2009: Record attendance for Valentine's Day performance by Rhizolith Group.