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||1336 – Four thousand defenders of Pilėnai commit mass suicide rather than be taken captive by the Teutonic Knights.
File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1572: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] make improved astronomical observations.
File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1572: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] make improved astronomical observations.
||1670 – Maria Margarethe Kirch, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1720)
||1682 – Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist and pathologist (d. 1771)


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:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1836: [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
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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.
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.


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.
||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.  
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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