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||1719 – Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat, French shipbuilder and merchant (d. 1797)
||1719: Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat born ... shipbuilder and merchant.


File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1822: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] born. He will be one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
File:Rudolf Clausius.jpg|link=Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|1822: [[Rudolf Clausius (nonfiction)|Rudolf Clausius]] born. He will be one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.


||1860 – The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.
||1860: The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences in Paris, France.


||Albert Coombs Barnes (b. January 2, 1872) was an American chemist, businessman, art collector, writer, and educator. Pic.
||1872: Albert Coombs Barnes born ... chemist, businessman, art collector, writer, and educator. Pic.


||1873 – Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist (d. 1960)
||1873: Antonie Pannekoek born ... astronomer and theorist.


File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|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.
File:George Biddell Airy 1891.jpg|link=George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician and astronomer [[George Biddell Airy (nonfiction)|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.


||1893 – Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931)
||1893: Lillian Leitzel born ... acrobat and strongwoman.


File:Walter_Heitler.jpg|link=Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and chemist [[Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|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.
File:Walter_Heitler.jpg|link=Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and chemist [[Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|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.
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File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|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.
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|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.


||1918 – Willi Graf, German physician and activist (d. 1943)
||1918: Willi Graf born ... physician and activist.


||1918 – Beatrice Hicks, American engineer (d. 1979)
||1918: Beatrice Hicks born ... engineer.


File:Thought camera.jpg|link=Scrying engine|1919: New type of [[Scrying engine|scrying engine]] used to predict [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Thought camera.jpg|link=Scrying engine|1919: New type of [[Scrying engine|scrying engine]] used to predict [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1920 – The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.
||1920: The second Palmer Raid takes place with another 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists arrested and held without trial. These raids take place in several U.S. cities.


File:Isaac Asimov.jpg|link=Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|1920: Writer [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] born. He will be considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.
File:Isaac Asimov.jpg|link=Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|1920: Writer [[Isaac Asimov (nonfiction)|Isaac Asimov]] born. He will be considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.


||Giacomo Luigi Ciamician (d. 2 January 1922) was an Italian photochemist and senator of Armenian descent. Pic.
||1922: Giacomo Luigi Ciamician dies ... photochemist and senator of Armenian descent. Pic.


||1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.
||1942: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) convicts 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history—the Duquesne Spy Ring.


||1943 – Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer (d. 2004)
||1943: Janet Akyüz Mattei born ... astronomer.


File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: Vandal Savage Press publishes the V-2 edition of ''[[Field Report Number One (V-2)|Field Report Number One]]''.
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1943: Vandal Savage Press publishes the V-2 edition of ''[[Field Report Number One (V-2)|Field Report Number One]]''.


||1955 – Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated.
||1955: Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera is assassinated.


File:Luna_1_(museum_replica).jpg|link=Luna 1 (nonfiction)|1959: [[Luna 1 (nonfiction)|Luna 1]], the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
File:Luna_1_(museum_replica).jpg|link=Luna 1 (nonfiction)|1959: [[Luna 1 (nonfiction)|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]].
|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]].


||Gale Ann Benson (d. 2 January 1972) was a British model, socialite and daughter of Conservative MP Leonard Plugge. She was buried alive and murdered in Trinidad by activist Michael X and members of his Black Power group.
||1972: Gale Ann Benson dies ... model, socialite and daughter of Conservative MP Leonard Plugge. She was buried alive and murdered in Trinidad by activist Michael X and members of his Black Power group.


||Tibor Gallai (d. 2 January 1992) was a Hungarian mathematician. He worked in combinatorics, especially in graph theory
||1992: Tibor Gallai dies ... mathematician. He worked in combinatorics, especially in graph theory. Pic: http://tudosnaptar.kfki.hu/historia/egyen.php?namenev=gallai


|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.
|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.
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File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: The robotic spacecraft [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]] flies by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to Earth on 15 January 2006.
File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: The robotic spacecraft [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]] flies by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to Earth on 15 January 2006.


||Gerda Hedwig Lerner (d. January 2, 2013) was an Austrian-born American historian and author.
||2013: Gerda Hedwig Lerner dies ... historian and author.


||2015 – Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (b. 1929)
||2015: Tihomir Novakov dies ... physicist and academic (b. 1929)


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  • 1822: Rudolf Clausius born. He will be one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    1959: Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.

  • 2004: The robotic spacecraft Stardust flies by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to Earth on 15 January 2006.

    2004: The robotic spacecraft Stardust flies by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to Earth on 15 January 2006.

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