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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]].
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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. Pic.


||1767 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German meteorologist and geologist (b. 1719)
||1707: Richard Towneley dies ... mathematician and astronomer. No pics online.


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]].
||1767: Johann Gottlob Lehmann dies ... meteorologist and geologist. Pic.


||1796 – Karl Ernst Claus, Estonian-Russian chemist, botanist, and academic (d. 1864)
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1673: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] presents a calculation machine at the Royal Society. Leibniz would complain to Oldenburg that Hooke took an "almost obscene" interest in the machine. Sure enough, by Feb 2 Hooke was actively working on an "arithmetic engine" that he would complete and show to the Royal Society within the month. By the following month his interest waned and he decided that no mechanical device could compare to paper and pencil or "Lord Napier's metal or parchment rods" (Napiers bones).
|*Stephen Inwood, The Forgotten Genius: The Biography Of Robert Hooke 1635-1703


||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. Pic: grave marker. No pics online.


||1840 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (b. 1752)
||1799: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure dies ... physicist and meteorologist ... often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven. Pic.


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.
||1840: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach dies ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist. Pic.


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


||1865 – Wilbur Scoville, American chemist and pharmacist (d. 1942)
||1861: Friedrich Tiedemann dies ... anatomist and physiologist. Contra racism. Pic.


||1880 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1956)
||1865: Wilbur Scoville born ... chemist and pharmacist. 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"
||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.


||1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
||1866: Gustav de Vries born ... mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg. Pic.


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]].
||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. Pic: Beagle.


||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.
||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.


||1900 – David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (b. 1831)
||1880: Frigyes Riesz born ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to functional analysis. Pic.


||1901 – Emil Erlenmeyer, German chemist and academic (b. 1825)
||1883: Ivan Emanuel Wallin born ... biologist who made the first experimental works on endosymbiotic theory. Nicknamed the "Mitochondria Man". Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ivan+Emanuel+Wallin


||1903 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (d. 1966)
||1889: Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
 
||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. Pic.
 
||1900: David Edward Hughes dies ... physicist, co-invented the microphone. Pic.
 
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 born ... physicist and academic. Pic: http://blog.eag.eu.com/general/houtermans/


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. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=willy+hartner
 
||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 born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate .. made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. 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.


||1905 – Willy Hartner, German physicist, historian, and academic (d. 1981)
||1921: Mathematician Marie Georges Humbert dies ... worked on Kummer surfaces and the Appell–Humbert theorem and introduced Humbert surfaces.  Pic.


||1908 – Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968) Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian: Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; IPA: [lʲɛv dɐˈvidəvʲitɕ lɐnˈda.u] (About this sound listen); January 22 [O.S. January 9] 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics.  
||1922: Camille Jordan dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1922 – Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (b. 1838)
||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. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Teddy+Wakelam&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS702US702&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjDpffLnpjnAhXQU80KHT_9CNIQ_AUoAXoECA4QAw&biw=695&bih=669


||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.
||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. Pic.


||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.
File:Astronaut Farm.jpg|link=Astronaut Farm|Premiere of the political science fiction thriller '''''[[Astronaut Farm]]''''', set in the Edward Eric Blair Memorial Space Station.  


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]].
||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.


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 mathematical constants]].
||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.
 
||1968: Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
 
File:Air_Force_ordnancemen_load_a_dispenser_with_seismic_sensors.jpg|link=Operation Igloo White (nonfiction)|1968: [[Operation Igloo White (nonfiction)|Operation Igloo White]], a US electronic surveillance system, begins installation: the first of 316 sensors are implanted around and near Khe Sanh in 44 strings by Navy squadron VO-67.


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


||1968 – Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
||1973: The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.


||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.
||1975: Paul Montel dies ... mathematician. He researched mostly on holomorphic functions in complex analysis. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Paul+Antoine+Aristide+Montel


|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.
||1980: Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop dies ... physicist and humanitarian. Pic.


||1973 – The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
||1981: Rudolf Oskar Robert Williams Geiger dies ... meteorologist who was one of the founders of microclimatology (the study of the climatic conditions within a few metres of the ground surface). His observations, made above grassy fields or areas of crops and below forest canopies, elucidated the complex and subtle interactions between vegetation and the heat, radiation, and water balances of the air and soil. Pic: https://www.geographixs.com/koumlppen-geiger.html


||Paul Antoine Aristide Montel (29 April 1876 – 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.
||1984: The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.


||1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.
||1985: Paul Karl Maria Harteck dies ... physical chemist. In 1945 under Operation Epsilon in "the big sweep" throughout Germany, Harteck was arrested by the allied British and American Armed Forces for suspicion of aiding the Nazis in their nuclear weapons program and he was incarcerated at Farm Hall, an English house fitted with covert electronic listening devices, for six months. Pic.


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.


||2015 – Fabrizio de Miranda, Italian engineer and academic, co-designed the Rande Bridge (b. 1926)
||1987: Patrick du Val dies ... mathematician, known for his work on algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and general relativity. The concept of Du Val singularity of an algebraic surface is named after him. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Du_Val.html
 
||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/
 
||2001: Anne Burns born ... aeronautical engineer and glider pilot. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=anne+burns
 
||1921: Bill Mauldin dies ... soldier and cartoonist.  Mauldin gained fame — and two Pulitzer prizes — for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field. Pic.
 
||2017: Rudolf Wille dies ... mathematician and was professor of General Algebra from 1970 to 2003 at Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt). His most celebrated work is the invention of formal concept analysis, an unsupervised machine learning technique that applies mathematical lattice theory to organize data based on objects and their shared attributes. Pic.
 


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  • 1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

    1592: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi born. He will clash with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

  • 1673: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz presents a calculation machine at the Royal Society. Leibniz would complain to Oldenburg that Hooke took an "almost obscene" interest in the machine. Sure enough, by Feb 2 Hooke was actively working on an "arithmetic engine" that he would complete and show to the Royal Society within the month. By the following month his interest waned and he decided that no mechanical device could compare to paper and pencil or "Lord Napier's metal or parchment rods" (Napiers bones).

    1673: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz presents a calculation machine at the Royal Society. Leibniz would complain to Oldenburg that Hooke took an "almost obscene" interest in the machine. Sure enough, by Feb 2 Hooke was actively working on an "arithmetic engine" that he would complete and show to the Royal Society within the month. By the following month his interest waned and he decided that no mechanical device could compare to paper and pencil or "Lord Napier's metal or parchment rods" (Napiers bones).

  • 1859: Mathematician Joseph Ludwig Raabe dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in certain cases.

    1859: Mathematician Joseph Ludwig Raabe dies. He is best known for Raabe's ratio test, which determines the convergence or divergence of an infinite series, in certain cases.

  • 1909: Chemist and academic Emil Erlenmeyer dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.

    1909: Chemist and academic Emil Erlenmeyer dies. He contributed to the early development of the theory of structure, formulating the Erlenmeyer rule, and designing the Erlenmeyer flask.

  • 1904: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.

    1904: Mathematician and Anglican theologian George Salmon dies. He worked in algebraic geometry for two decades, then devoted the last forty years of his life to theology.

  • Premiere of the political science fiction thriller Astronaut Farm, set in the Edward Eric Blair Memorial Space Station.

    Premiere of the political science fiction thriller Astronaut Farm, set in the Edward Eric Blair Memorial Space Station.

  • 1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.

    1957: The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.

  • 1968: Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system, begins installation: the first of 316 sensors are implanted around and near Khe Sanh in 44 strings by Navy squadron VO-67.

    1968: Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system, begins installation: the first of 316 sensors are implanted around and near Khe Sanh in 44 strings by Navy squadron VO-67.

  • 1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.

    1987: Politician R. Budd Dwyer takes his own life during a press conference. Later that day, the event is broadcast on television.

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