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||AD 55 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
||AD 55: Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.


File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
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File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1618: Writer and alleged troll [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes his essay ''[[Man's inhumanity to man (nonfiction)|Man's Inhumanity to Man]]'', which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1618: Writer and alleged troll [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes his essay ''[[Man's inhumanity to man (nonfiction)|Man's Inhumanity to Man]]'', which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.


||1626 – Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1552)
||1626: Pietro Cataldi dies ... mathematician and astronomer.


File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1650: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1650: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.


||1808 – Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal
||1808: Jesse Fell burns anthracite on an open grate as an experiment in heating homes with coal


||Anders Gustaf Ekeberg (d. 11 February 1813) was a Swedish chemist who discovered tantalum in 1802. Pic.
||1813: Anders Gustaf Ekeberg dies ... chemist who discovered tantalum in 1802. Pic.


||1823 – Carnival tragedy of 1823: About 110 boys are killed during a stampede at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti in Valletta, Malta.
||1823: Carnival tragedy of 1823: About 110 boys are killed during a stampede at the Convent of the Minori Osservanti in Valletta, Malta.


||1839 – Josiah Willard Gibbs, American physicist, mathematician, and academic (d. 1903)
||1839: Josiah Willard Gibbs born ... physicist, mathematician, and academic.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.


||1864 – Louis Bouveault, French chemist (d. 1909)
||1864: Louis Bouveault born ... chemist.


||Anders Wiman (b. 11 February 1865) was a Swedish mathematician.
||1865: Anders Wiman born ... mathematician.


||1868 – Léon Foucault, French physicist and academic (b. 1819)
||1868: Léon Foucault dies ... physicist and academic.


File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] saves [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] from attack by [[crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]].
File:Georg Cantor diagonal argument.jpg|link=Georg Cantor|1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[Georg Cantor]] saves [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] from attack by [[crimes against mathematical constants|math criminals]].


|File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] has vivid dream about ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]''.
||1897: Emil Leon Post born ... mathematician and logician.


||1897 – Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (d.1954)
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1898: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.  


File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1898: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.  
||1899: Wolfgang Gröbner born ... was an Austrian mathematician. His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry. However, the theory of Gröbner bases for polynomial rings was developed by his student Bruno Buchberger in 1965, who named them for Gröbner.


||Wolfgang Gröbner (b. 11 February 1899) was an Austrian mathematician. His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry. However, the theory of Gröbner bases for polynomial rings was developed by his student Bruno Buchberger in 1965, who named them for Gröbner.
||1909: Claude Chevalley born ... mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory, and the theory of algebraic groups. Pic.


||Claude Chevalley (b. 11 February 1909) was a French mathematician who made important contributions to number theory, algebraic geometry, class field theory, finite group theory, and the theory of algebraic groups. Pic.
||1915: Richard Hamming born ... mathematician and academic.


||1915 – Richard Hamming, American mathematician and academic (d. 1998)
||1917: Oswaldo Cruz dies ... physician and epidemiologist.


||1917 – Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician and epidemiologist (b. 1872)
||1918: Andrew Donald Booth born ... electrical engineer, physicist and computer scientist who was an early developer of the magnetic drum memory for computers and invented Booth's multiplication algorithm. Pic: https://www.i-programmer.info/history/people/1253-andrew-booth.html


||Ernst Paul Specker (b. 11 February 1920) was a Swiss mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine’s New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible.
||1920: Ernst Paul Specker born ... mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine’s New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible.


||Yozo Matsushima (b. February 11, 1921) was a Japanese mathematician.
||1921: Yozo Matsushima born ... mathematician.


||Jacques Friedel (b. 11 February 1921) was a French physicist and material scientist. Pic.
||1921: Jacques Friedel born ... physicist and material scientist. Pic.


||1923 – Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic (b. 1847)
||1923: Wilhelm Killing dies ... mathematician and academic.


||Jacques Loeb (d. February 11, 1924) was a German-born American physiologist and biologist. Messaging. Pic.
||1924: Jacques Loeb dies ... American physiologist and biologist. Messaging. Pic.


File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|Oskar Anderson]] publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|Oskar Anderson]] publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Charles Algernon Parsons.jpg|link=Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|1931: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|Charles Algernon Parsons]] dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.
File:Charles Algernon Parsons.jpg|link=Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|1931: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|Charles Algernon Parsons]] dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.


||1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
||1938: BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".


||Egbert Rudolf van Kampen (d. 11 February 1942) was a Dutch mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic.
||1942: Egbert Rudolf van Kampen dies .. mathematician. He made important contributions to topology, especially to the study of fundamental groups. Pic.


File:Charles Critchfield ID badge.gif|link=Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter [[Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|Charles Critchfield]] uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
File:Charles Critchfield ID badge.gif|link=Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter [[Charles Critchfield (nonfiction)|Charles Critchfield]] uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].


||Ronald J. DiPerna (b. 11 February 1947) was an American mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations.
||1947: Ronald J. DiPerna dies ... mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations.


||1953 – U.S.President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
||1953: U.S.President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.


||1971 – Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
||1971: Eighty-seven countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, sign the Seabed Arms Control Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.


File:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen.jpg|link=J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate [[J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|J. Hans D. Jensen]] dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.  
File:Johannes Hans Daniel Jensen.jpg|link=J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate [[J. Hans D. Jensen (nonfiction)|J. Hans D. Jensen]] dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.  


||Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov (d. 11 February 1974) was a Russian mathematician who made significant contributions in both pure and applied mathematics, and also in the history of mathematics. Pic.
||1974: Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions in both pure and applied mathematics, and also in the history of mathematics. Pic.
 
|File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|1977: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' strangely moved by the poetry of [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]].


||James Bryant Conant (d. February 11, 1978) was an American chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.
||1978: James Bryant Conant dies ... chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany.


||1981 – Around 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating eight workers.
||1981: Around 100,000 US gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating eight workers.


||1993 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
||1993: Robert W. Holley dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
||1997: Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.


||2001 – A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
||2001: A Dutch programmer launches the Anna Kournikova virus, infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.


||2006 – Then U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas.
||2006: Then U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Texas attorney, while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas.


||Alexander Andreevich Samarskii (d. 11 February 2008) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and academician specializing in mathematical physics, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods. Pic.
||2008: Alexander Andreevich Samarskii dies ... mathematician and academician specializing in mathematical physics, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods. Pic.


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  • 1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

    1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

  • 1618: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes publishes his essay Man's Inhumanity to Man, which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.

    1618: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes publishes his essay Man's Inhumanity to Man, which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.

  • 1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

    1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.

  • 1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

    1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

  • 1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor saves Edward Lear from attack by math criminals.

    1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor saves Edward Lear from attack by math criminals.

  • 1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

    1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.

  • 1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter Oskar Anderson publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter Oskar Anderson publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

    1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

  • Charles Critchfield ID badge.gif

    1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter Charles Critchfield uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

  • 1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

    1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.

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