Template:Selected anniversaries/February 15
1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".
1732: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet translates scrying engine textbook from English into French.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn invents new type of cellular automata.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 unexpectedly replicates during cellular automata testing.
1979: Saccharomyces cerevisiae spontaneously generates new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2016: New version of Bernoulli family tree powered by cellular automata.
