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File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1737: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] born.  He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.
File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1737: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] born.  He will author the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and inspire the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.


||1775 – American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
||1775: American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.


||1775 – Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1856)
||1775: Farkas Bolyai born ... mathematician and academic (d. 1856)


||1789 – Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand (d. 1849)
||1789: Franz Xaver Gabelsberger born ... engineer, invented Gabelsberger shorthand.


||The Rev Dr Nevil Maskelyne DD FRS FRSE (6 October 1732 – 9 February 1811) was the fifth British Astronomer Royal.[a] He held the office from 1765 to 1811. He was the first person to scientifically measure the weight of the planet Earth.
||1811: The Rev Dr Nevil Maskelyne dies ... fifth British Astronomer Royal. He held the office from 1765 to 1811. He was the first person to scientifically measure the weight of the planet Earth.


||Frank Haven Hall (b. February 9, 1841) was an American inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking.
||1841: Frank Haven Hall born ...inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking.


||1846 – Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (d. 1929)
||1846: Wilhelm Maybach born ... engineer and businessman, founded Maybach.


||1880 – Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1959) - Pic (small, group shot).
||1880: Lipót Fejér born ... mathematician and academic. Pic (small, group shot).


||Henry John Stephen Smith (d. 9 February 1883) was a mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory. Pic.
||1883: Henry John Stephen Smith dies ... mathematician remembered for his work in elementary divisors, quadratic forms, and Smith–Minkowski–Siegel mass formula in number theory. Pic.


File:Red-Charter.jpg|link=Posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft|1889: Discovery of "Red Charter", the first known evidence of the [[posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft]].
File:Red-Charter.jpg|link=Posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft|1889: Discovery of "Red Charter", the first known evidence of the [[posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft]].


||Max Valier (b. February 9, 1895) was an Austrian rocketry pioneer. He helped found the German Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") that would bring together many of the minds that would later make spaceflight a reality in the 20th century. Pic (drawing).
||1895: Max Valier born ... rocketry pioneer. He helped found the German Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") that would bring together many of the minds that would later make spaceflight a reality in the 20th century. Pic (drawing).


File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|1907: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] born.  He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|1907: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] born.  He will become of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.


||Alexander Dinghas (b. February 9, 1908) was a Greek mathematician. Pic.
||1908: Alexander Dinghas dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||Giulio (Yoel) Racah (b. February 9, 1909) was an Italian–Israeli physicist and mathematician. Pic.
||1909: Giulio (Yoel) Racah born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic.


||1910 – Jacques Monod, French biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
||1910: Jacques Monod born ...  biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Gustav Hahn - 1913 Great Meteor Procession.jpg|link=1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|1913: A [[1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America]], leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
File:Gustav Hahn - 1913 Great Meteor Procession.jpg|link=1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|1913: A [[1913 Great Meteor Procession (nonfiction)|group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America]], leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
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File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."


||1925 – Burkhard Heim, German physicist and academic (d. 2001)
||1919: Irene Ann Stegun born ... mathematician at the National Bureau of Standards who, with Milton Abramowitz, edited a classic book of mathematical tables called ''A Handbook of Mathematical Functions'', widely known as ''Abramowitz and Stegun''.  Pic: https://alchetron.com/Irene-Stegun


||Roger Michael Needham, CBE, FRS, FREng (b. 9 February 1935 – 1 March 2003) was a British computer scientist. Pic.
||1925: Burkhard Heim born ... physicist and academic (d. 2001)


||1945 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
||1935: Roger Michael Needhamborn ... computer scientist. Pic.


||1950 – Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
||1945: World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
 
||1950: Second Red Scare: US Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.


|File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1951: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] ... FICTION FICTION FICTION ... pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
|File:Hebern_electric_code_machine.jpg|link=Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|1951: Inventor [[Edward Hebern (nonfiction)|Edward Hugh Hebern]] ... FICTION FICTION FICTION ... pioneer of rotor encryption machines.


||1959 – The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
||1959: The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.


||1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.
||1964: The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA.


||Leo Moser (d. February 9, 1970, Edmonton) was an Austrian-Canadian mathematician, best known for his polygon notation.
||1970: Leo Moser dies ... mathematician, best known for his polygon notation. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Moser_Leo.html


File:Coxeter circles.png|link=Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles (nonfiction)|1971: Mathematician and crime-fighter Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter uses his famous [[Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles (nonfiction)|loxodromic sequence of tangent circles]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
File:Coxeter circles.png|link=Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles (nonfiction)|1971: Mathematician and crime-fighter Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter uses his famous [[Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles (nonfiction)|loxodromic sequence of tangent circles]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  


||1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.
||1971: Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.


||1975 – The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
||1975: The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.


||1977 – Sergey Ilyushin, Russian engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company (b. 1894)
||1977: Sergey Ilyushin dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Ilyushin Design Company.


|File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1984: Advances in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel technology]] generate record profits for [[transdimensional corporations]].
|File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1984: Advances in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel technology]] generate record profits for [[transdimensional corporations]].


||1986 – Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.
||1986: Halley's Comet last appeared in the inner Solar System.


||1994 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)
||1994: Howard Martin Temin dies ... geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1934)


||1996 – Copernicium is first discovered.
||1996: Copernicium is discovered.


||The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision was a ship collision between the United States Navy (USN) Los Angeles-class submarine USS Greeneville (SSN-772) and the Japanese-fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru (えひめ丸) from Ehime Prefecture on 9 February 2001, about 9 nautical miles (17 km) off the south coast of Oahu, Hawaii, United States. In a demonstration for some VIP civilian visitors, Greeneville performed an emergency ballast-blow surfacing maneuver. As the submarine shot to the surface, she struck Ehime Maru. Within 10 minutes of the collision, Ehime Maru sank. Nine of the people on board were killed: four high-school students, two teachers, and three crewmembers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision
||2001: The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision was a ship collision between the United States Navy (USN) Los Angeles-class submarine USS Greeneville (SSN-772) and the Japanese-fishery high-school training ship Ehime Maru (えひめ丸) from Ehime Prefecture on 9 February 2001, about 9 nautical miles (17 km) off the south coast of Oahu, Hawaii, United States. In a demonstration for some VIP civilian visitors, Greeneville performed an emergency ballast-blow surfacing maneuver. As the submarine shot to the surface, she struck Ehime Maru. Within 10 minutes of the collision, Ehime Maru sank. Nine of the people on board were killed: four high-school students, two teachers, and three crewmembers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision


||Masatoşi Gündüz İkeda (Japanese: 池田 正敏 ギュンドゥズ Ikeda Masatoshi Gyunduzu) (d/ 9 February 2003), was a Turkish mathematician of Japanese ancestry, known for his contributions to the field of algebraic number theory.
||2003: Masatoşi Gündüz İkeda ... mathematician ... known for his contributions to the field of algebraic number theory.


||2005 – Robert Kearns, American engineer, invented the windscreen wiper (b. 1927)
||2005: Robert Kearns dies ... engineer, invented the windscreen wiper.


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