Template:Selected anniversaries/February 4

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  1902: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh born. At age 25 in 1927 he will go from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.

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  1906: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.

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  1923: Mathematician Karl Menger uses scrying engine techniques to attend virtual lecture by Donald Knuth.

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  1928: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.

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  1965: Physicist, academic, and APTO field engineer Val Logsdon Fitch visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on the decay of K-mesons as evidence that the reactions of subatomic particles are not indifferent to time.

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  1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

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  1994: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.

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  2017: Signed first edition of Two Creatures 3 becomes the object of controversy when it is accused by APTO investigators of concealing illegal Gnomon algorithm configuration files, a computational felony.

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  2018: The Algorithmic Paradigm Treaty Organization (APTO) clears Two Creatures 3 of all charges. Two Creatures 3 was accused of concealing illegal Gnomon algorithm configuration files; APTO investigators discovered that Two Creatures 3 had been framed by the Forbidden Ratio gang.