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||869 – Saint Cyril, Greek bishop, linguist, and scholar (b. 82
||1349 – Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg.
||1349 – Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remaining Jews are forcibly removed from Strasbourg.
||1468 – Johannes Werner, German priest and mathematician (d. 1522)
||1490 – Valentin Friedland, German scholar and educationist of the Reformation (d. 1556)


||1502 – Spanish Inquisition: The Catholic Monarchs issue a decree forcing Muslims in Granada to convert to Catholicism or leave Spain.
||1502 – Spanish Inquisition: The Catholic Monarchs issue a decree forcing Muslims in Granada to convert to Catholicism or leave Spain.


||1676 – Abraham Bosse, French engraver and illustrator (b. 1602)
||1744 – John Hadley, English mathematician, invented the octant (b. 1682)
||1779 – James Cook, English captain, cartographer, and explorer (b. 1728)
||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)
||1831 – Henry Maudslay, English engineer (b. 1771) Machine tools
||1838 – Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (d. 1914)
||1847 – Anna Howard Shaw, American physician, minister, and activist (d. 1919)
||1848 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer and academic (d. 1934)


File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1855: Texas is linked by [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|telegraph]] to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1855: Texas is linked by [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|telegraph]] to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
||1859 – George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., American engineer, inventor of the Ferris wheel (d. 1896)
||1869 – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist and meteorologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)


|link=|1876: Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
|link=|1876: Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.


||Edmund Georg Hermann Landau (b. 14 February 1877) was a German born mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis.
||Edmund Georg Hermann Landau (b. 14 February 1877) was a German born mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis.
||1878 – Julius Nieuwland, Belgian priest, chemist and academic (d. 1936)
||1894 – Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (b. 1814)
||1898 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-American physicist and astronomer (d. 1974)
||1899 – Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
||1911 – Willem Johan Kolff, Dutch physician and inventor (d. 2009)
||1912 – The US Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
||1917 – Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
||1924 – The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
||1929 – Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago.


File:David Hilbert.jpg|link=David Hilbert (nonfiction)|1943: Mathematician [[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]] dies. He discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
File:David Hilbert.jpg|link=David Hilbert (nonfiction)|1943: Mathematician [[David Hilbert (nonfiction)|David Hilbert]] dies. He discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
||1945 – World War II: Navigational error leads to the mistaken bombing of Prague, Czechoslovakia by an American squadron of B-17s assisting in the Soviet's Vistula–Oder Offensive.


File:ENIAC.jpg|link=ENIAC (nonfiction)|1949: [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] programmed to select optimal Valentine's Day gift.
File:ENIAC.jpg|link=ENIAC (nonfiction)|1949: [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] programmed to select optimal Valentine's Day gift.


File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1950: Physicist and engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]] dies. He was one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1950: Physicist and engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]] dies. He was one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
||1956 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
||1961 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
||1966 – Australian currency is decimalized.
||1975 – Julian Huxley, English biologist and eugenicist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1887)
||1989 – Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
||1989 – Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.


File:Pale Blue Dot.png|link=Pale Blue Dot (nonfiction)|1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as ''[[Pale Blue Dot (nonfiction)|Pale Blue Dot]]''.
File:Pale Blue Dot.png|link=Pale Blue Dot (nonfiction)|1990: The Voyager 1 spacecraft takes the photograph of planet Earth later become famous as ''[[Pale Blue Dot (nonfiction)|Pale Blue Dot]]''.
||2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
||2005 – YouTube is launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.


File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2009: Record attendance for Valentine's Day performance by [[Rhizolith Group]].
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2009: Record attendance for Valentine's Day performance by [[Rhizolith Group]].
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Revision as of 19:14, 29 August 2017

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 1949: ENIAC programmed to select optimal Valentine's Day gift.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    2009: Record attendance for Valentine's Day performance by Rhizolith Group.

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