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


|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:Franciscus_Raphelengius.jpg|link=Franciscus Raphelengius (nonfiction)|1539: Scholar, printer, and bookseller [[Franciscus Raphelengius (nonfiction)|Franciscus Raphelengius]] born. Raphelengius will produce an Arabic-Latin dictionary, about 550 pages, which will be published posthumously in 1613 at Leiden — the first publication by printing press of a book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin.  


File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1735: Polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] dies. Arbuthnot invented the figure of John Bull.


File:Red Eyes Fighting.jpg|link=Red Eyes Fighting|1736: Philosopher and crime-fighter ''[[Red Eyes Fighting]]'' defeats gang of [[Crimes against physical constants|physics criminals]] in close-quarters combat.
File:Alice Hamilton.jpg|link=Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|1869: Physician, research scientist, and author [[Alice Hamilton (nonfiction)|Alice Hamilton]] born. Hamilton will be a leading expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology.


||1748 – Anders Sparrman, Swedish physician and activist (d. 1820)
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.  Brouwer will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
 
|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.
 
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:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|1870: Tokens harvested from [[Diagramaceous soil]] generate new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
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.
 
||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.
 
||1899 – Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin (d. 1978)
 
||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)
 
||1910 – Kelly Johnson, American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works (d. 1990)
 
||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.
 
||Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (d. February 27, 1915) was a Russian 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.
 
||1930 – Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist and academic (d. 2014)
 
||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)
 
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: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.
File:Back On the Supply Chain Gang.jpg|link=Back On the Supply Chain Gang|1982: The song "'''[[Back On the Supply Chain Gang]]'''" by Chrissie Hynde and the Department of Corrections reaches number one on the Gnomon Chronicles pop music chart.  
 
||1987 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
 
||1998 – George H. Hitchings, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
 
||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, American game designer and author (b. 1960)
 
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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  • 1539: Scholar, printer, and bookseller Franciscus Raphelengius born. Raphelengius will produce an Arabic-Latin dictionary, about 550 pages, which will be published posthumously in 1613 at Leiden — the first publication by printing press of a book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin.

    1539: Scholar, printer, and bookseller Franciscus Raphelengius born. Raphelengius will produce an Arabic-Latin dictionary, about 550 pages, which will be published posthumously in 1613 at Leiden — the first publication by printing press of a book-length dictionary for the Arabic language in Latin.

  • 1735: Polymath John Arbuthnot dies. Arbuthnot invented the figure of John Bull.

    1735: Polymath John Arbuthnot dies. Arbuthnot invented the figure of John Bull.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 1982: The song "Back On the Supply Chain Gang" by Chrissie Hynde and the Department of Corrections reaches number one on the Gnomon Chronicles pop music chart.

    1982: The song "Back On the Supply Chain Gang" by Chrissie Hynde and the Department of Corrections reaches number one on the Gnomon Chronicles pop music chart.

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