Template:Selected anniversaries/February 21
From Gnomon Chronicles
1303: Canterbury scrying engine retrofitted with anti-capacitor plague module.
1788: Scientist, inventor, and engineer Francis Ronalds born. He will be knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph.
1899: Marie and Pierre Curie use radium to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1926: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes dies. He received widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".
2002: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.
Portable envy components at risk of capacitor plague.
