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1822: Rudolf Clausius born. He will be one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
1892: Mathematician and astronomer George Biddell Airy dies. His achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
1904: Physicist and chemist Walter Heinrich Heitler born. He will make contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.
1905: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann born. He will prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.
1919: New type of scrying engine used to predict crimes against mathematical constants.
1920: Writer Isaac Asimov born. He will be considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.
1943: Vandal Savage Press publishes the V-2 edition of Field Report Number One.
1959: Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.

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 |File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|1959: "An [[Evil bit release|Evil bit was released]] in 1923," according to [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]].
+||Tibor Gallai (d. 2 January 1992) was a Hungarian mathematician. He worked in combinatorics, especially in graph theory
 |File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] held hostage, kidnappers demand million-dollar ransom.