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||1535 – Following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants are burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris
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||1535: Following the Affair of the Placards, French Protestants are burned at the stake in front of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris
 
||1609: Joseph Justus Scaliger dies ... religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and ancient Egyptian history. He spent the last sixteen years of his life in the Netherlands. Pic.


File:Anna Manzolini.jpg|link=Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|1714: Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler [[Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|Anna Morandi Manzolini]] born. Her collection of wax models will be known throughout Europe as ''Supellex Manzoliniana'' and be sought after to aid in the study of anatomy.
File:Anna Manzolini.jpg|link=Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|1714: Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler [[Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|Anna Morandi Manzolini]] born. Her collection of wax models will be known throughout Europe as ''Supellex Manzoliniana'' and be sought after to aid in the study of anatomy.


File:The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.jpg|link=The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|1780: Steganographic analysis of ''[[The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (nonfiction)|The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters]]'' unexpectedly reveals previously unknown templates for [[organic golems]].
||1743: John Fitch born ... inventor, clockmaker, entrepreneur and engineer. He was most famous for operating the first steamboat service in the United States. Pic.
 
||1793: After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
 
||1804: Ernst Gottfried Baldinger dies ... physician... in 1761 was entrusted with the superintendence of the military hospitals connected with the Prussian encampment near Torgau. He published a treatise in 1765, ''De Militum Morbis'', which met with a favourable reception. Pic.


||1793 – After being found guilty of treason by the French National Convention, Louis XVI of France is executed by guillotine.
||1827: Mathematician and theorist Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin born. No reliable pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ivan+Mikheevich+Pervushin


||Ernst Gottfried Baldinger (d. 21 January 1804), German physician, was born in Großvargula near Erfurt. He studied medicine at Erfurt, Halle and Jena, earning his MD in 1760 under the guidance of Ernst Anton Nicolai and in 1761 was entrusted with the superintendence of the military hospitals connected with the Prussian encampment near Torgau. He published a treatise in 1765, De Militum Morbis, which met with a favourable reception.  
||1846: Pieter Hendrik Schoute born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1827 – Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1900)
||1860: Mathematician, educator, and editor David Eugene Smith born.  Pic.


File:Joseph Ludwig Raabe.jpg|link=Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|1828: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Joseph Ludwig Raabe (nonfiction)|Joseph Ludwig Raabe]] publishes new version of Raabe's ratio test, which uses the convergence or divergence of an infinite series to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1868: Felix Hoffmann born ... chemist notable for re-synthesizing diamorphine (independently from C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin". Pic.


||1846 – Pieter Hendrik Schoute, Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 1923)
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1869: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] born.  A  mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Emperor Nicholas II, Rasputin gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.


||Harry Bateman FRS (d. 1946) was an English mathematician.
||1872: Mathematician Lucjan Böttcher born ... He will contribute to functional equations, theory of iterations, and the dynamics of holomorphic functions. Pic search.


||Felix Hoffmann (b. 21 January 1868) was a German chemist notable for re-synthesizing diamorphine (independently from C.R. Alder Wright who synthesized it 23 years earlier), which was popularized under the Bayer trade name of "heroin".  
||1874: René-Louis Baire born ... mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Pic.


File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1869: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] born.
File:Firing_a_woman_from_a_cannon_-_Otago_Daily_Times_-_21_Jan_1887.png|1887: "Mrs Mary Steadman Aldis, has appealed to the City Council to stop the performances of Delo, the woman fired from a cannon at City Hall...."


||1882 – Pavel Florensky, Russian mathematician and theologian (d. 1937)
||1882: Pavel Florensky born ... mathematician and theologian. Pic.


||1885 – Umberto Nobile, Italian engineer and explorer (d. 1978)
||1885: Umberto Nobile born ... aviator, aeronautical engineer and Arctic explorer. Nobile was a developer and promoter of semi-rigid airships during the period between the two World Wars. He is primarily remembered for designing and piloting the airship Norge, which may have been the first aircraft to reach the North Pole, and which was indisputably the first to fly across the polar ice cap from Europe to America. Pic.


File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1890: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by running away.
||1892: John Couch Adams dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic.


||John Couch Adams FRS (d. 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer.
||1897: Alexander Weinstein born ... mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics. Pic.


File:Richard August Carl Emil Erlenmeyer.jpg|link=Emil Erlenmeyer (nonfiction)|1899: Chemist and crime-fighter [[Emil Erlenmeyer (nonfiction)|Emil Erlenmeyer]] uses the Erlenmeyer rule to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].
||1898: Eduard Zintl born ... chemist. He gained prominence for research on intermetallic compounds. Pic search.


File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1899: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] is born.
File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1899: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] is born.


File:George Salmon.jpg|link=George Salmon (nonfiction)|1900:  Mathematician, theologian, and Anglican crime-fighter [[George Salmon (nonfiction)|George Salmon]] uses algebraic geometry detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] dies. Gray did pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.
 
File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=|1901: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] dies. He did pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the [[Telephone (nonfiction)|telephone]].


||1912 – Konrad Emil Bloch, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
||1905: Karl Wallenda born ... acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas. Pic.


File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|1913: Social activist and alleged superhero [[The Governess]] warns the Great Powers not to use nuclear weapons ahead of schedule.
||1912: Konrad Emil Bloch born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:André_Lichnerowicz.jpg|link=André Lichnerowicz (nonfiction)|1915: Physicist and mathematician [[André Lichnerowicz (nonfiction)|André Lichnerowicz]] born. He will work in differential geometry and mathematical physics.
File:André_Lichnerowicz.jpg|link=André Lichnerowicz (nonfiction)|1915: Physicist and mathematician [[André Lichnerowicz (nonfiction)|André Lichnerowicz]] born. He will work in differential geometry and mathematical physics.


||1926 – Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
||1926: Camillo Golgi dies ... physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||Martin Kneser (b. 21 January 1928) was a German mathematician. His name has been given to Kneser graphs, which he studied in 1955.
||1928: Martin Kneser born ... mathematician. His name has been given to Kneser graphs, which he studied in 1955. Pic.


File:Numbered cake pops.jpg|link=Numbered cake algorithm|1951: [[Numbered cake algorithm]] used to manufacture new type of [[organic golems]].
||1946: Harry Bateman dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1954 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.
||1954: The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS ''Nautilus'', is launched in Groton, Connecticut by Mamie Eisenhower, the First Lady of the United States.


File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1959: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] re-enters Earth's atmosphere.
File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1959: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] re-enters Earth's atmosphere.


||1960 – Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
||1960: Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.


File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1974: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] says he "is confident that the upcoming [[1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Thule Air Base B-52 crash]] is a sound business investment."
File:Red Spot Travel Agency.jpg|link=Red Spot Travel Agency|1967: The '''[[Red Spot Travel Agency]]''' opens for business, providing travel and tourism-related services between Earth and Jupiter.


File:Boeing B-52G in flight.jpg|link=1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1968: A B-52 bomber [[1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash (nonfiction)|crashes near Thule Air Base]], contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.
File:Boeing B-52G in flight.jpg|link=1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash (nonfiction)|1968: A B-52 bomber [[1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash (nonfiction)|crashes near Thule Air Base]], contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.


File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1969: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] announces new film about the [[1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash (nonfiction)|Thule Air Base B-52 crash]].
||1971: Leonard Isaac Schiff dies ... physicist best known for his book ''Quantum Mechanics''. Pic search.
 
||1974: Mathematician Arnaud Denjoy dies. His contributions included work in harmonic analysis and differential equations; he was the first to define an integral which integrates all derivatives (now known as the Henstock–Kurzweil integral). Pic: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaud_Denjoy
 
||2004: NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
 
||2013: Donald Hornig dies ... chemist, explosives expert, teacher and presidential science advisor; Project Stormfury weather weather modification. Pic search.


||Leonard Isaac Schiff died January 21, 1971 - physicist best known for his book Quantum Mechanics.
||2015: Fabrizio de Miranda dies ... bridges and structural engineer and university professor. Pic.


||2004 – NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies in the management of its flash memory and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.


||Fabrizio de Miranda (d. January 21, 2015) was an Italian bridges and structural engineer and university professor.
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  • 1714: Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini born. Her collection of wax models will be known throughout Europe as Supellex Manzoliniana and be sought after to aid in the study of anatomy.

    1714: Anatomist and anatomical wax modeler Anna Morandi Manzolini born. Her collection of wax models will be known throughout Europe as Supellex Manzoliniana and be sought after to aid in the study of anatomy.

  • 1869: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin born. A mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Emperor Nicholas II, Rasputin gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.

    1869: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin born. A mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Emperor Nicholas II, Rasputin gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia.

  • 1887: "Mrs Mary Steadman Aldis, has appealed to the City Council to stop the performances of Delo, the woman fired from a cannon at City Hall...."

    1887: "Mrs Mary Steadman Aldis, has appealed to the City Council to stop the performances of Delo, the woman fired from a cannon at City Hall...."

  • 1899: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is born.

    1899: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is born.

  • 1901: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray dies. Gray did pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.

    1901: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray dies. Gray did pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.

  • 1915: Physicist and mathematician André Lichnerowicz born. He will work in differential geometry and mathematical physics.

    1915: Physicist and mathematician André Lichnerowicz born. He will work in differential geometry and mathematical physics.

  • 1959: Project SCORE satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere.

    1959: Project SCORE satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere.

  • 1967: The Red Spot Travel Agency opens for business, providing travel and tourism-related services between Earth and Jupiter.

    1967: The Red Spot Travel Agency opens for business, providing travel and tourism-related services between Earth and Jupiter.

  • 1968: A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.

    1968: A B-52 bomber crashes near Thule Air Base, contaminating the area after its nuclear payload ruptures. One of the four bombs remains unaccounted for after the cleanup operation is complete.

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