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||1497: The Bonfire of the Vanities occurs, during which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy. | ||1497: The Bonfire of the Vanities occurs, during which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy. | ||
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||1859: Mathematician and astronomer James Inman dies ... Pic: https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/%E2%80%9Codd-little-book%E2%80%9D-revealed-be-chinese-musical-gem | ||1859: Mathematician and astronomer James Inman dies ... Pic: https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/%E2%80%9Codd-little-book%E2%80%9D-revealed-be-chinese-musical-gem | ||
||1871: Kiyoshi Shiga born ... physician and bacteriologist ... famous for the discovery of Shigella dysenteriae, the organism that causes dysentery, in 1897, during a severe epidemic in which more than 90,000 cases were reported, with a mortality rate approaching 30%. Pic. | |||
File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied. | File:G.H. Hardy.jpg|link=G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and geneticist [[G. H. Hardy (nonfiction)|G. H. Hardy]] born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied. | ||
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1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
1889: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.
1897: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
1949: Mathematician, physicist, and computer crime investigator John von Neumann publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
1967: Pyramid of the Sun voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
1999: NASA launches the spacecraft Stardust. On January 2, 2004 it will fly by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to earth on 15 January 2006.