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File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and crime-fighter [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and crime-fighter [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.


||1903 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
||1903: Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)


||1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
||1909: Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.


||1921 born: Dmitry Yevgenyevich Okhotsimsky was a Soviet Russian aerospace engineer and scientist who was the pioneer of space ballistics in the USSR. He wrote fundamental works in applied celestial mechanics, spaceflight dynamics and robotics. Pic.
||1921: Dmitry Yevgenyevich Okhotsimsky born ... aerospace engineer and scientist who was the pioneer of space ballistics in the USSR. He wrote fundamental works in applied celestial mechanics, spaceflight dynamics and robotics. Pic.


||1931 – Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)
||1926: James Alexander "Sandy" Green born ... mathematician and Professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who worked in the field of representation theory. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Sandy-Green-(mathematician)


||1935 – Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.  With the aid of a radio station in Daventry, England, and two receiving antennas, Scottish engineer and inventor Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated the use of radar.
||1931: Otto Wallach, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1847)


||1936 – In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
||1935: Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.  With the aid of a radio station in Daventry, England, and two receiving antennas, Scottish engineer and inventor Robert Watson-Watt first demonstrated the use of radar.


|File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1963: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series nominated for [[Manhattan Project]] award.
||1936: In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.


||Ahmed Hassan Zewail (b. February 26, 1946) was an Egyptian-American scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic.
||1946: Ahmed Hassan Zewail born ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic.


||1966 – Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
||1966 – Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket

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  • 1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.

    1638: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac dies. He was the earliest writer who discussed the solution of indeterminate equations by means of continued fractions. He also did work in number theory and found a method of constructing magic squares.

  • 1648: Niels Steensen analyzes fossil trilobite using Gnomon algorithm techniques, finds evidence of crimes against geological constants.

    1648: Niels Steensen analyzes fossil trilobite using Gnomon algorithm techniques, finds evidence of crimes against geological constants.

  • 1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.

    1786: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He will observe that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect which will later be known as eddy current.

  • 1904: Physicist and crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

    1904: Physicist and crime-fighter John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

  • 2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

    2005: Computer scientist Jef Raskin dies. He was a human–computer interface expert best known for conceiving and starting the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from Game of Chance unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."

    2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sequence from Game of Chance unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data."

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