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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) 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.
||1819 – Christopher Latham Sholes, American journalist and politician, invented the typewriter (d. 1890) Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the QWERTY keyboard, 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.

    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.

  • 1944: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson uses thermionic theory to compute optimal Valentine's Day card.

    1944: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson uses thermionic theory to compute optimal Valentine's Day card.

  • 1950: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky dies. He was one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.

    1950: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky dies. He was one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.

  • 1951: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Richard Feynman uses principles of quantum electrodynamics to compose state-of-the-art Valentine's Day cards.

    1951: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Richard Feynman uses principles of quantum electrodynamics to compose state-of-the-art Valentine's Day cards.

  • 1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.

    1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as Pale Blue Dot.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of famed illustration Alice and Niles Dancing reveals three terabytes of love letters between mathematicians Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.

    2017: Steganographic analysis of famed illustration Alice and Niles Dancing reveals three terabytes of love letters between mathematicians Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.

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