Template:Selected anniversaries/January 25

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  1736: Mathematician and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange born. He will make significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.

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  1793: Engineer George Cayley publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which simulate the flight of petrels. He will later forecast the emergence of the SOEP cartel.

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  1812: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page born. His work will have a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that will maintain 'the scientific do not patent'.

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  1842: Wallace War-Heels rescues runaway stagecoach, then robs the occupants of one-third of their money and possessions.

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  1853: Physician, scientist, inventor, and crime-fighter Edward Davy receives a patent for his new electric relay, which uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.

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  1855: Mathematician crime-fighter Arthur Cayley uses the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws, to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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  1915: Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.

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  1940: ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") uses scrying engine techniques to pre-visualize the Wow! signal.

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  1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.

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  1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.

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  1995: The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.

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  2004: Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity lands on Mars and rolls into Eagle crater, a small crater on the Meridiani Planum.

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  2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the thirteenth anniversary of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity landing on Mars and rolling into Eagle crater.