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||49 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. | ||49 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. Pic. | ||
||1654: Nicholas Culpeper dies ... botanist, physician, and astrologer. | ||1654: Nicholas Culpeper dies ... botanist, physician, and astrologer. He spent much of his life in outdoor catalogueing of hundreds of medicinal herbs. Pic. | ||
||1745: Isaac Titsingh born ... surgeon, scholar, and diplomat. | ||1745: Isaac Titsingh born ... surgeon, scholar, and diplomat. | ||
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||1842: Luigi Pigorini born ... palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer. | ||1842: Luigi Pigorini born ... palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer. | ||
||1855: Ivan | ||1855: Ivan Simonov dies ... astronomer and a geodesist. Pic. | ||
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device. | File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device. | ||
Revision as of 19:47, 27 February 2019
1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born.
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1960: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, announces world tour.