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||Frans van Ravelingen Latinized Franciscus Raphelengius (b. February 27, 1539), was a Flemish-born scholar, printer and bookseller, working at Antwerp and later at Leiden. For the last decade of his life he was professor of Hebrew at Leiden University. He produced an Arabic-Latin dictionary, about 550 pages, published posthumously in 1613 at Leiden. This was the first publication by printing press of a book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin. Pic.
||1539: Frans van Ravelingen Latinized Franciscus Raphelengius born ... scholar, printer and bookseller, working at Antwerp and later at Leiden. For the last decade of his life he was professor of Hebrew at Leiden University. He produced an Arabic-Latin dictionary, about 550 pages, published posthumously in 1613 at Leiden. This was the first publication by printing press of a book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin. Pic.


||1630 – Roche Braziliano, Dutch pirate (d. 1671)
||1630: Roche Braziliano born ... pirate.


|File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1637: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to pre-visualize the transit of Venus.
|File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1637: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to pre-visualize the transit of Venus.
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File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes|1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter ''[[Red Eyes]]'' defeats gang of [[Crimes against physical constants|physics criminals]] in close-quarters combat.
File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes|1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter ''[[Red Eyes]]'' defeats gang of [[Crimes against physical constants|physics criminals]] in close-quarters combat.


||1748 – Anders Sparrman, Swedish physician and activist (d. 1820)
||1748: Anders Sparrman born ... physician and activist.


|File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1854: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] discovers invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
|File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1854: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] discovers invents new type of [[scrying engine]].


||Irving Fisher (b. February 27, 1867) was an American economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner. Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and general equilibrium. His research on the quantity theory of money inaugurated the school of macroeconomic thought known as monetarism. Fisher was also a pioneer of econometrics, including the development of index numbers. Pic.
||1867: Irving Fisher born ... economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner. Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and general equilibrium. His research on the quantity theory of money inaugurated the school of macroeconomic thought known as monetarism. Fisher was also a pioneer of econometrics, including the development of index numbers. Pic.


File:Alice Hamilton.jpg|link=Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|1869: Physician, research scientist, and author [[Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|Alice Hamilton]] born. She will be a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
File:Alice Hamilton.jpg|link=Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|1869: Physician, research scientist, and author [[Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|Alice Hamilton]] born. She will be a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.
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File:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.jpg|link=L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and philosopher [[L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|L. E. J. Brouwer]] born.  He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
File:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.jpg|link=L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and philosopher [[L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|L. E. J. Brouwer]] born.  He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.


||Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (d. 27 February 1887) was a Russian Romantic composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist. Pic.
||1887: Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin dies ... composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist. Pic.


||Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt (d. 27 February 1894) was a Baltic German chemist from the Governorate of Livonia, a part of the Russian Empire. He determined the typical crystallization patterns of many important biochemicals such as uric acid, oxalic acid and its salts, lactic acid, cholesterin, stearin, etc.
||1894: Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt dies ... chemist from the Governorate of Livonia, a part of the Russian Empire. He determined the typical crystallization patterns of many important biochemicals such as uric acid, oxalic acid and its salts, lactic acid, cholesterin, stearin, etc.


||1899 – Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin (d. 1978)
||1899: Charles Herbert Best born ... physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin.


||1903 – Hans Rohrbach, German mathematician (d. 1993)  He worked both as an algebraist and a number theorist and later worked as cryptanalyst at Pers Z S, the German Foreign Office cipher bureau, during World War II.  Pic.
||1903 – Hans Rohrbach, German mathematician (d. 1993)  He worked both as an algebraist and a number theorist and later worked as cryptanalyst at Pers Z S, the German Foreign Office cipher bureau, during World War II.  Pic.


||1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1996)
||1904: Yulii Borisovich Khariton born ... physicist and academic.


||1910 – Kelly Johnson, American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works (d. 1990)
||1910: Kelly Johnson born ... engineer, co-founded Skunk Works.


||Joseph Leo "Joe" Doob (b. February 27, 1910) was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory. He will develop the modern theory of martingales. Pic.
||1910: Joseph Leo "Joe" Doob born ... mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory. He will develop the modern theory of martingales. Pic.


||Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (d. February 27, 1915) was a Russian mathematician.
||1915: Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin dies ... mathematician.


||1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.
||1922: A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett.


||1930 – Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist and academic (d. 2014)
||1930: Paul von Ragué Schleyer born ... chemist and academic.


||1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. The Nazis used the fire to solidify their power and eliminate the communists as political rivals.
||1933: Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. The Nazis used the fire to solidify their power and eliminate the communists as political rivals.


||1936 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1849)
||1936: Ivan Pavlov dies ... physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
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File:Carbon 14 formation and decay.svg|link=Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover [[Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|carbon-14]]. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
File:Carbon 14 formation and decay.svg|link=Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover [[Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|carbon-14]]. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.


||1943 – In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.
||1943: In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest.


||1987 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
||1987: Bill Holman dies ... cartoonist.


||1998 – George H. Hitchings, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
||1997: Kingsley Davis dies ... sociologist and demographer who was a world-renowned expert on population trends; he coined the terms population explosion and zero population growth and promoted methods of bringing the latter about. His specific studies of American society led him to work on a general science of world society, based on empirical analysis of each society in its habitat. Later, however, he came to be concerned about low birthrates in developed countries, fearing a shortage of educated leaders. Pic: https://www.sociosite.net/sociologists/davis_kingsley.php


||2004 – Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack
||1998: George H. Hitchings dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2014 – Aaron Allston, American game designer and author (b. 1960)
||2004: Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack
 
||2014: Aaron Allston dies ... game designer and author.


File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of love letters between [[Alice Beta]] and [[Niles Cartouchian]].
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|2017: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of love letters between [[Alice Beta]] and [[Niles Cartouchian]].


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  • 1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.

    1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.

  • 1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter Red Eyes defeats gang of physics criminals in close-quarters combat.

    1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter Red Eyes defeats gang of physics criminals in close-quarters combat.

  • 1869: Physician, research scientist, and author Alice Hamilton born. She will be a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.

    1869: Physician, research scientist, and author Alice Hamilton born. She will be a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.

  • 1870: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil generate new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1870: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil generate new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1881: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer born. He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.

    1881: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer born. He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.

  • 1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

    1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

  • 1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.

    1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.

  • 2017: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of love letters between Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.

    2017: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of love letters between Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian.

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