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14 Feb 1548
Battle of Uedahara |
Battle of Uedahara Battle of Uedahara: Firearms are used for the first time on the battlefield in Japan. |
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14 Feb 1614
John Wilkins |
birth John Wilkins Bishop John Wilkins, English natural philosopher, co-founder of the Royal Society (died 1672) |
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14 Feb 1744
John Hadley |
death John Hadley John Hadley, English mathematician (born 1682) |
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14 Feb 1776
Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck |
birth Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck, German botanist (died 1858) |
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14 Feb 1779
James Cook |
death James Cook James Cook, English explorer (born 1728) |
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14 Feb 1806
Joseph-François Malgaigne |
birth Joseph-François Malgaigne Joseph-François Malgaigne, French surgeon (died 1865) |
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14 Feb 1833
Gottlieb Kirchhoff |
death Gottlieb Kirchhoff Gottlieb Kirchhoff (born 1764), chemist. |
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14 Feb 1862
Agnes Pockels |
birth Agnes Pockels Agnes Pockels (died 1935), German chemist (in Venice) |
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14 Feb 1869
C. T. R. Wilson |
birth C. T. R. Wilson C. T. R. Wilson (died 1959), Scottish winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
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14 Feb 1876
Scottish American |
Scottish American (technology) Scottish American inventor Alexander Graham Bell and American electrical engineer Elisha Gray each file a patent for the telephone, initiating the Elisha Gray and Alexander Bell telephone controversy. |
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14 Feb 1888
Robert Remak |
birth Robert Remak Robert Remak (died 1942), mathematician. |
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14 Feb 1896
Arthur Milne |
birth Arthur Milne Arthur Milne (died 1950), English space physicist. |
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14 Feb 1899
Voting machines |
Voting machines (technology) Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections. |
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14 Feb 1911
Willem Johan Kolff |
birth Willem Johan Kolff Willem Johan Kolff (died 2009), Dutch inventor of hemodialysis. |
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14 Feb 1917
Herbert A. Hauptman |
birth Herbert A. Hauptman Herbert A. Hauptman (died 2011), American mathematical biophysicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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14 Feb 1943
David Hilbert |
death David Hilbert David Hilbert (born 1862), German mathematician. |
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14 Feb 1946
ENIAC |
ENIAC (computer science) ENIAC, the first non-classified all-electronic Turing complete computer, built under the direction of J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, is announced and dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering. It is programmable by plugboard and uses conditional branching. |
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14 Feb 1961
Discovery of the chemical elements |
Discovery of the chemical elements (physics) Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at Berkeley, California. |
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14 Feb 1975
Julian Huxley |
death Julian Huxley Sir Julian Huxley (b. 1887), English biologist and author. |
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14 Feb 2003
Dolly the sheep |
death Dolly the sheep Dolly the sheep (b. 1996), the world's first cloned mammal. |
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