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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize: making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France.
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system.
A space entirely devoid of all matter is a vacuum. On February 4 of every year, we are challenged to create one.
Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg 2004, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Kirk Douglas was an American actor. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of the leading Hollywood stars and often appeared in western and adventure movies.
World Nutella Day celebrates the sweetened hazelnut cocoa spread Nutella. The day was launched by the American blogger Sara Rosso on 5 February 2007. She wished for a day on which everyone could creatively celebrate their fondness for the sweet spread.
February 6 celebrates the subtleties of idiomatic expressions in the English language with US Lame Duck Day. But that's why this day of action is more about politism than about the duck pond.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
The American Love Your Robot Day takes place every year on February 7th.
Punkrock fans watch out and join in. If you haven't already done so, February 7th should definitely be on your calendar as International Clash Day. Since 2013 fans all over the world have been celebrating the musical legacy of Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon - better known as The Clash - with this date.
Miguel José Ferrer was an American actor and voice actor. His breakthrough role was in the 1987 film RoboCop.
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest American composers of all time, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history in a career spanning over six decades.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (8 February 1834 – 2 February 1907) was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered.
The National Pizza Day falls in the USA every year on the 9th of February. Hurray for spicy pita bread made of yeast dough and a good opportunity to pay tribute to this food holiday from the United States. Enjoy your meal.
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (27 March 1845 – 10 February 1923) was a Germanmechanical engineer and physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known as X-rays or Röntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
There are days in working life that can put a strain on your nerves. Especially those who are in daily contact with customers or offer support services should be able to sing a song about it. Reason enough to set an example here and meet these adverse circumstances with a day of action of your own. At least that's what the viasion GmbH team thought and declared 10 February 2015 the day of the stupid nut.
Deadpool is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Fabian Nicieza and artist/writer Rob Liefeld, the character first appeared in The New Mutants #98 (cover-dated February 1991).
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures.
Happy Birthday Thomas Alva Edison (1847 - 1931). In his honor, February 11 is celebrated in the USA as Be Electrific Day.
February the 2nd is the 42nd day of the year.
Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. His proposition that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted, and considered a foundational concept in science.
Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann, Jr. (born February 12, 1954) is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols, notably ZRTP and Zfone. Zimmermann is co-founder and Chief Scientist of the global encrypted communications firm Silent Circle.
Happy Birthday Charles Robert Darwin (1809 - 1882). International Darwin Day on 12 February honours one of the great British scientists and naturalists of the 19th century. After all, hardly any theory has shaped our modern view of the world as much as the theory of evolution formulated in Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
The subject of aliens, science fiction and UFOs is by no means an unknown subject. This also applies to the second Tuesday in February, which has been officially celebrated in the US state of New Mexico since 2003 as the so-called Extraterrestrial Culture Day.
On February 13, the USA celebrates the nationwide Change Your Name Day.
NET Framework (pronounced as "dot net") is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large class library named as Framework Class Library (FCL) and provides language interoperability (each language can use code written in other languages) across several programming languages.