February 10th
1785 - Birth of Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist
1846 - Birth of Ira Remsen, American chemist
1865 - Death of Heinrich Lenz, German physicist
1887 - Birth of John Franklin Enders, Nobel Prize Laureate
1891 - Death of Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician
1902 - Birth of Walter Houser Brattain, Nobel Prize Laureate
1912 - Death of Joseph Lister, British surgeon
1923 - Death of Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist and Nobel Prize Laureate
1996 - The supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
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February 28th
1704 - Birth of Louis Godin, French astronomer
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1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer
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1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist
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