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|File:Lanfranc circa 1100.jpg|link=Lanfranc (nonfiction)|1081: Celebrated jurist and monk [[Lanfranc (nonfiction)|Lanfranc]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]].


File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
File:Pierre Gassendi.jpg|link=Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest [[Pierre Gassendi (nonfiction)|Pierre Gassendi]] born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.


||1645 – William Kidd, Scottish sailor and pirate hunter (d. 1701)
||1645: William Kidd born ... sailor and pirate hunter.


||1767 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German meteorologist and geologist (b. 1719)
||1767: Johann Gottlob Lehmann dies ... meteorologist and geologist.


File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1795: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] uses the French [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore system]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Claude Chappe.jpg|link=Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|1795: Inventor [[Claude Chappe (nonfiction)|Claude Chappe]] uses the French [[Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)|semaphore system]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Jeremiah Dixon FRS (b. 22 January 1779) was an English surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line.
||1779: Jeremiah Dixon born ... surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line.


||1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752)
||1840: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach dies ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist.


File:Joseph Ludwig Raabe.jpg|link=Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|Joseph Ludwig Raabe]] dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.
File:Joseph Ludwig Raabe.jpg|link=Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|1859: Mathematician [[Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|Joseph Ludwig Raabe]] dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in some cases.


||Friedrich Tiedemann (d. 22 January 1861) was a German anatomist and physiologist. Contra racism.
||1861: Friedrich Tiedemann dies ... anatomist and physiologist. Contra racism.


||1865 – Wilbur Scoville, American chemist and pharmacist (d. 1942)
||1865: Wilbur Scoville born ... chemist and pharmacist.


||Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen (b. 22 January 1865), was a German physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908.  Pic.
||1865: Louis Carl Heinrich Friedrich Paschen born ... physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series, a series of hydrogen spectral lines in the infrared region that he first observed in 1908.  Pic.


||Gustav de Vries (b. 22 January 1866) was a Dutch mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg. Pic.
||1866: Gustav de Vries born ... mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg. Pic.


||Sir William Snow Harris (d. January 1867) was an English physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMS Beagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin. No pic (Beagle).
||1867: William Snow Harris dies ... physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMS Beagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin. No pic (Beagle).


||1874: Leonard Eugene Dickson born ... was an American mathematician. He was one of the first American researchers in abstract algebra, in particular the theory of finite fields and classical groups, and is also remembered for a three-volume history of number theory, History of the Theory of Numbers. Pic not Wikipedia.
||1874: Leonard Eugene Dickson born ... was an American mathematician. He was one of the first American researchers in abstract algebra, in particular the theory of finite fields and classical groups, and is also remembered for a three-volume history of number theory, History of the Theory of Numbers. Pic not Wikipedia.


||Frigyes Riesz (b. 22 January 1880) was a Hungarian mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis. Pic.
||1880: Frigyes Riesz born ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis. Pic.


||Ivan Emanuel Wallin (b. 22 January 1883) was an American biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man"
||1883: Ivan Emanuel Wallin born ... biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man"


||1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
||1889: Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.


File:Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger.jpg|link=Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|1890: Electrical engineer, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger]] demonstrates new type of alternating current electrical meter which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].
File:Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger.jpg|link=Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|1890: Electrical engineer, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Oliver B. Shallenberger (nonfiction)|Oliver Blackburn Shallenberger]] demonstrates new type of alternating current electrical meter which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].


||Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg (b. 22 January 1890) was a Soviet physicist who worked in the fields of optics and spectroscopy. Together with Leonid Mandelstam he co-discoverer inelastic combinatorial scattering of light, which is used now in Raman spectroscopy.
||1890: Grigory Samuilovich Landsberg born ... physicist who worked in the fields of optics and spectroscopy. Together with Leonid Mandelstam he co-discoverer inelastic combinatorial scattering of light, which is used now in Raman spectroscopy.


||1900 – David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
||1900: David Edward Hughes dies ... physicist, co-invented the microphone.


File:Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer.jpg|link=Emil Erlenmeyer (nonfiction)|1909: Chemist and academic [[Emil Erlenmeyer (nonfiction)|Emil Erlenmeyer]] dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.
File:Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer.jpg|link=Emil Erlenmeyer (nonfiction)|1909: Chemist and academic [[Emil Erlenmeyer (nonfiction)|Emil Erlenmeyer]] dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.


||1903 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (d. 1966)
||1903: Fritz Houtermans born ... physicist and academic.


File:Tesla with ray gun.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla|1910: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter [[Nikola Tesla]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].
File:Tesla with ray gun.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla|1910: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter [[Nikola Tesla]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].
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File:George Salmon.jpg|link=George Salmon (nonfiction)|1904:  Mathematician and Anglican theologian [[George Salmon (nonfiction)|George Salmon]] dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.
File:George Salmon.jpg|link=George Salmon (nonfiction)|1904:  Mathematician and Anglican theologian [[George Salmon (nonfiction)|George Salmon]] dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.


||1905 – Willy Hartner, German physicist, historian, and academic (d. 1981)
||1905: Willy Hartner born ... physicist, historian, and academic.


||Michel Loève (b. January 22, 1907) was a French-American probabilist and mathematical statistician. He is known in mathematical statistics and probability theory for the Karhunen–Loève theorem and Karhunen–Loève transform. Pic.
||1907: Michel Loève born ... probabilist and mathematical statistician. He is known in mathematical statistics and probability theory for the Karhunen–Loève theorem and Karhunen–Loève transform. Pic.


||1908 – Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) Lev Davidovich Landau (January 22 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.  
||1908: Lev Landau born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate .. made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.  


||William David McElroy (b. 22 January 1917) was an American biochemist and academic administrator. He initiated an independent research program in bioluminescence, recruiting students to collect fireflies to perform experiments. He discovered the key role that luciferase and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) play in the process. Pic.
||1917: William David McElroy born ... biochemist and academic administrator. He initiated an independent research program in bioluminescence, recruiting students to collect fireflies to perform experiments. He discovered the key role that luciferase and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) play in the process. Pic.


||1922 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (b. 1838)
||1922: Camille Jordan dies ... mathematician and academic.


||1927 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
||1927: Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.


||1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
||1946: Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.


||Harald August Bohr (d. 22 January 1951) was a Danish mathematician and soccer player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr.
||1951: Harald August Bohr dies ... mathematician and soccer player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. His brother was the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr.


File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1953: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental [[scrying engine]] which unexpectedly previews the upcoming arrest of [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George Metesky]].
File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1953: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used to power experimental [[scrying engine]] which unexpectedly previews the upcoming arrest of [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George Metesky]].


||Paul Walden (d. 22 January 1957) was a Latvian chemist known for his work in stereochemistry and history of chemistry. In particular he invented the stereochemical reaction known as Walden inversion and synthesized the first room-temperature ionic liquid, ethylammonium nitrate. Pic.
||1957: Paul Walden dies ... chemist known for his work in stereochemistry and history of chemistry. In particular he invented the stereochemical reaction known as Walden inversion and synthesized the first room-temperature ionic liquid, ethylammonium nitrate. Pic.


File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]], is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
File:George Metesky.jpg|link=George Metesky (nonfiction)|1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", [[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]], is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.


||K. Ananda Rau (d. 22 January 1966) was an eminent Indian mathematician. He will work on the summability of series, the theory of functions of a complex variable, and sums of an even number of squares. Pic.
||1966: K. Ananda Rau dies ... mathematician. He worked on the summability of series, the theory of functions of a complex variable, and sums of an even number of squares. Pic.


File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to detect and prevent crimes against [[Poem|poetry]].
File:Brion_Gysin_scrying_engine_Hamangia_figurines.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1967: Performance artist and crime-fighter [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to detect and prevent crimes against [[Poem|poetry]].


||1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
||1968: Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.


||1968 – Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
||1968: Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam, begins installation.


||1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
||1970: The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.


|File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1968: [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] accepts [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]]'s application for membership.
||1973: The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.


||1973 – The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
||1975: Paul Antoine Aristide Montel dies ... mathematician. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis.
 
||Paul Antoine Aristide Montel (d. 22 January 1975) was a French mathematician. He was born in Nice, France and died in Paris, France. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis.


||1980: Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop dies ... physicist and humanitarian. Pic.
||1980: Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop dies ... physicist and humanitarian. Pic.
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File:R. Budd Dwyer.jpg|link=R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|1987:  Politician [[R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|R. Budd Dwyer]] takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.
File:R. Budd Dwyer.jpg|link=R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|1987:  Politician [[R. Budd Dwyer (nonfiction)|R. Budd Dwyer]] takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.
||1989: Sydney Goldstein dies ... mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics, notably his work on steady-flow laminar boundary-layer equations and on the turbulent resistance to rotation of a disk in a fluid. Goldstein also contributed to aerodynamics. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/sydney-goldstein/


||2015: Fabrizio de Miranda dies ... engineer and academic, co-designed the Rande Bridge.
||2015: Fabrizio de Miranda dies ... engineer and academic, co-designed the Rande Bridge.

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