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||1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
File:John Dee.jpg|link=John Dee (nonfiction)|1598: [[John Dee (nonfiction)|John Dee]] demonstrates the solar eclipse by viewing an image through a pinhole. Two versions from Ashmole and Aubrey give different details of who was present. Dee's Diary only contains the notation, "the eclips. A clowdy day, but great darkness about 9 1/2 maine".  


File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1572: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] make improved astronomical observations.
File:Friedrich Reinitzer.jpg|link=Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|1857: Botanist and chemist [[Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|Friedrich Reinitzer]] born. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, Reinitzer discovered the properties of what would later be called liquid crystals; although the discovery attracted attention, interest soon faded as no practical uses were found at the time.


||1670 – Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1720)
File:Theodor Svedberg.jpg|link=Theodor Svedberg (nonfiction)|1971: Chemist and academic [[Theodor Svedberg (nonfiction)|Theodor Svedberg]] dies. He was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.


||1682 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist and pathologist (d. 1771)
File:Hugo Steinhaus.jpg|link=Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|1972: Mathematician and academic [[Hugo Steinhaus (nonfiction)|Hugo Steinhaus]] dies. He discovered mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.


File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1836: [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
File:Glenn Seaborg.jpg|link=Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|1999: Chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn T. Seaborg]] dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.  
 
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
 
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1864: [[Wallace War-Heels]] rescues lost band of travellers, gets them safely to Kansas City, then robs them of one-third of their money and possessions.
 
||1866 – Miners in Calaveras County, California, discover what is now called the Calaveras Skull – human remains that supposedly indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants had co-existed.
 
||1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.
 
||1919 – Oregon places a one cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.
 
||1920 – Marcel-Auguste Dieulafoy, French archaeologist and engineer (b. 1844)
 
||1922 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (b. 1869)
 
||Masatoşi Gündüz İkeda (Japanese: 池田 正敏 ギュンドゥズ Ikeda Masatoshi Gyunduzu) (b. 25 February 1926), was a Turkish mathematician of Japanese ancestry, known for his contributions to the field of algebraic number theory.
 
||1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a broadcast license for television from the Federal Radio Commission.
 
||1933 – The USS Ranger is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be designed from the start of construction as an aircraft carrier.
 
||1935 – Oktay Sinanoğlu, Turkish chemist and academic (d. 2015)
 
||1939 – The first of 2 1⁄2 million Anderson air raid shelters appeared in North London.
1941 – February strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.
 
||1950 – George Minot, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
 
||1951 – The first Pan American Games were officially opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina by President Juan Perón.


||1953 – Sergei Winogradsky, Ukrainian-Russian microbiologist and ecologist (b. 1856)
||File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1954: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment.
||1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.
||1957 – Bugs Moran, American mob boss (b. 1893)
||1971 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
||1988 – Bernard Ashmole, English archaeologist and historian (b. 1894)
File:Glenn Seaborg.jpg|link=Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|1999: Chemist [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Glenn T. Seaborg]] dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.


||Donald Lewes Hings, CM MBE (d. February 25, 2004) was a Canadian inventor. In 1937 he created a portable radio signaling system for his employer CM&S, which he called a "packset", but which later became known as the "Walkie-Talkie".
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Latest revision as of 05:14, 25 February 2022

  • 1598: John Dee demonstrates the solar eclipse by viewing an image through a pinhole. Two versions from Ashmole and Aubrey give different details of who was present. Dee's Diary only contains the notation, "the eclips. A clowdy day, but great darkness about 9 1/2 maine".

    1598: John Dee demonstrates the solar eclipse by viewing an image through a pinhole. Two versions from Ashmole and Aubrey give different details of who was present. Dee's Diary only contains the notation, "the eclips. A clowdy day, but great darkness about 9 1/2 maine".

  • 1857: Botanist and chemist Friedrich Reinitzer born. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, Reinitzer discovered the properties of what would later be called liquid crystals; although the discovery attracted attention, interest soon faded as no practical uses were found at the time.

    1857: Botanist and chemist Friedrich Reinitzer born. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, Reinitzer discovered the properties of what would later be called liquid crystals; although the discovery attracted attention, interest soon faded as no practical uses were found at the time.

  • 1971: Chemist and academic Theodor Svedberg dies. He was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.

    1971: Chemist and academic Theodor Svedberg dies. He was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.

  • 1972: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus dies. He discovered mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.

    1972: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus dies. He discovered mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he made notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.

  • 1999: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.

    1999: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg dies. He shared the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.

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