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||1512 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer (b. 1454)
|File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1627: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1627: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Galileo by Leoni.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1632: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo]]'s ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' is published.


||Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (b. 22 February 1796) ForMemRS was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.
||Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (b. 22 February 1796) ForMemRS was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist.
||1817 – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician and academic (d. 1880)
||1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
||1824 – Pierre Janssen, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1907)


||Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (b. February 22, 1849) was a Russian mathematician.
||Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (b. February 22, 1849) was a Russian mathematician.


||Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (b. 22 February 1857) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves theorized by James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The unit of frequency — cycle per second — was named the "hertz" in his honor.
||Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (b. 22 February 1857) was a German physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves theorized by James Clerk Maxwell's electromagnetic theory of light. The unit of frequency — cycle per second — was named the "hertz" in his honor.
||1879 – Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish chemist and academic (d. 1947)
||1903 – Frank P. Ramsey, English economist, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1930)
||1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
||1915 – World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
||1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio address from the White House.


File:Justin Virgilius Capră.jpg|link=Justin Capră (nonfiction)|1933: Engineer and inventor [[Justin Capră (nonfiction)|Justin Capră]] born. He will design fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.
File:Justin Virgilius Capră.jpg|link=Justin Capră (nonfiction)|1933: Engineer and inventor [[Justin Capră (nonfiction)|Justin Capră]] born. He will design fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.
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||Max Karl Werner Wien (d. 22 February 1938) was a German physicist and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena.
||Max Karl Werner Wien (d. 22 February 1938) was a German physicist and the director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Jena.


||Karl Adolf Hessenberg (September 8, 1904 – February 22, 1959) was a German mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him.
||Karl Adolf Hessenberg (d. February 22, 1959) was a German mathematician and engineer. The Hessenberg matrix form is named after him.


File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1973: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to manufacture large quantity of military-grade [[clandestiphrine]].
File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1973: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to manufacture large quantity of military-grade [[clandestiphrine]].
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File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] uses chaos theory principles to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright.jpg|link=Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|1988: Mathematician and academic [[Mary Cartwright (nonfiction)|Mary Cartwright]] uses chaos theory principles to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.


File:Kh-4b corona.jpg|link=Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|1995: The [[Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|Corona reconnaissance satellite program]], in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
File:Kh-4b corona.jpg|link=Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|1995: The [[Corona (satellite) (nonfiction)|Corona reconnaissance satellite program]], in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
||1997 – In Roslin, Midlothian, British scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
||2002 – Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
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