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||1901: Richard Dagobert Brauer born ... mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory.
||1901: Richard Dagobert Brauer born ... mathematician. He worked mainly in abstract algebra, but made important contributions to number theory. He was the founder of modular representation theory.


||1902 – Walter Houser Brattain, Chinese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
||1902: Walter Houser Brattain born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Lew Kowarski (b. 1907, Saint Petersburg) was a naturalized French physicist. He was a lesser known but important contributor to nuclear science.
||1907: Lew Kowarski born ... physicist. He was a lesser known but important contributor to nuclear science.


||Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (b. 10 February 1911) was a Soviet scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician". Pic.
||1911: Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh born ... scientist in the field of mathematics and mechanics. He was one of the key figures behind Soviet space program. Among scientific circles of USSR Keldysh was known with epithet "the Chief Theoretician". Pic.


File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1912: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1912: Surgeon and scientist [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]] dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.


||1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
||1913: Arnold Rudolf Karl Flammersfeld born ... nuclear physicist who worked on the German nuclear energy project during World War II. Pic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iXfTp-p-IA


||Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove (b. 10 February 1924) was a Belgian physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic.
||1923: Wilhelm Röntgen dies ...  physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh (b. February 10, 1936) was an Indian-American statistician especially known for his contributions to sequential analysis. Pic.
||1924: Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove born ... physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Pic.


||1944 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and chess player (b. 1870)
||1936: Bhaskar Kumar Ghosh born ... statistician especially known for his contributions to sequential analysis. Pic.
 
||1944: E. M. Antoniadi dies ... astronomer and chess player.


File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1952: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1952: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
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File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


||1962 – Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
||1962: Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.


File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]] is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
File:Gary_Powers.jpg|link=Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot [[Francis Gary Powers (nonfiction)|Gary Powers]] is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.


||Eugen Sänger (22 September 1905 – 10 February 1964) was an Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology. Pic (postage stamp).
||1964: Eugen Sänger dies ... aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology. Pic (postage stamp).


File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1967: New isotope of [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] discovered, revealing secret history of the [[Manhattan Project]].
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1967: New isotope of [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] discovered, revealing secret history of the [[Manhattan Project]].


||Fritz John (d. 10 February 1994) was a German-born mathematician specialising in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation. Pic.
||1994: Fritz John dies ... mathematician specializing in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation. Pic.


||1996 – IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
||1996: IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.


||2009 – The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
||2009: The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.


Green City Skyline.jpg|link=Green City Skyline (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green City Skyline (nonfiction)|Green City Skyline]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
Green City Skyline.jpg|link=Green City Skyline (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green City Skyline (nonfiction)|Green City Skyline]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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