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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. | ||
||1736: Stephen Gray dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic: http://blog.wireandcableyourway.com/stephen-gray-and-the-invention-of-wire | ||1736: Stephen Gray dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic: http://blog.wireandcableyourway.com/stephen-gray-and-the-invention-of-wire | ||
||1804: John Deere born ... blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company | ||1804: John Deere born ... blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company. Pic search. | ||
||1819: Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. | ||1819: Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. Pic. | ||
||1824: William Huggins born ... astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins. Pic. | ||1824: William Huggins born ... astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins. Pic. | ||
||1833: Jacob Mendes Da Costa born ... physician. | ||1833: Jacob Mendes Da Costa born ... physician. Pic. | ||
||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. | ||
||1883: Eric Temple Bell born ... mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine. Pic. | |||
||1883: Eric Temple Bell born ... mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine. | |||
File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|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. | File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|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. | ||
||1893: Joseph Algernon Pearce born ... astrophysicist and astronomer | ||1893: Joseph Algernon Pearce born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. Pic search. | ||
||1897: Maxwell | ||1897: Maxwell Newman born ... mathematician and codebreaker. Pic. | ||
File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor. | File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor. | ||
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||1901: Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch dies ... mathematician ... working in mathematical analysis. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. Pic. | ||1901: Oscar (Oskar) Xavier Schlömilch dies ... mathematician ... working in mathematical analysis. He is now known as the eponym of the Schlömilch function, a kind of Bessel function. Pic. | ||
||1905: Ulf von Euler born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... Neurotransmitters | ||1905: Ulf von Euler born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... Neurotransmitters. Pic. | ||
||1906: Oleg | ||1906: Oleg Antonov born ... engineer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company. Pic. | ||
||1908: Milton Spinoza Plesset born ... applied physicist who worked in the field of fluid mechanics and nuclear energy. Pic. | ||1908: Milton Spinoza Plesset born ... applied physicist who worked in the field of fluid mechanics and nuclear energy. Pic. | ||
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||1909: Kōsaku Yosida (b. Yosida Kōsaku, 7 February 1909) was a Japanese mathematician who worked in the field of functional analysis. He is known for the Hille-Yosida theorem concerning C0-semigroups. Pic. | ||1909: Kōsaku Yosida (b. Yosida Kōsaku, 7 February 1909) was a Japanese mathematician who worked in the field of functional analysis. He is known for the Hille-Yosida theorem concerning C0-semigroups. Pic. | ||
||1926: Konstantin Feoktistov born ... engineer and astronaut. | ||1926: Konstantin Feoktistov born ... engineer and astronaut. Pic. | ||
||1926: Bill Hoest born ... cartoonist. | ||1926: Bill Hoest born ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
||1937: George Roger Sell born ... mathematician, specializing in differential equations, dynamical systems, and applications to fluid dynamics, climate modeling, control systems. U of MN. Pic search. | |||
||1902: Howard Walter Gilmore dies - "Take her down" - submarine commander in the United States Navy who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his self-sacrifice during World War II. Pic. | |||
||1952: Dmitry Dmitrievich Morduhai-Boltovskoi dies ... mathematician, best known for his work in analysis, differential Galois theory, number theory, hyperbolic geometry, and history of mathematics. Pic. | ||1952: Dmitry Dmitrievich Morduhai-Boltovskoi dies ... mathematician, best known for his work in analysis, differential Galois theory, number theory, hyperbolic geometry, and history of mathematics. Pic. | ||
File:Igor Kurchatov (1940).jpg|link=Igor Kurchatov (nonfiction)|1960: Physicist and academic [[Igor Kurchatov (nonfiction)|Igor Kurchatov]] dies. Kurchatov played a leading role in the Soviet Union's clandestine nuclear weapons program, culminating in the First Lightning bomb test. | |||
||1969: Hans Adolph Rademacher dies ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory. Pic: http://apprendre-math.info/anglais/historyDetail.htm?id=Rademacher | ||1969: Hans Adolph Rademacher dies ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory. Pic: http://apprendre-math.info/anglais/historyDetail.htm?id=Rademacher | ||
||1979: Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered. | ||1979: Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered. | ||
File:Replicant Vice - Let Me Tell You About Miami.jpg|link=Replicant Vice|Premiere of '''''[[Replicant Vice]]''''', an American crime drama television series starring Harrison Ford and Roy Batty. | |||
||1984: Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). | ||1984: Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). | ||
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||1987: Adriaan van Wijngaarden dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica (computer science) in the Netherlands. Even though he was trained as an engineer, Van Wijngaarden would emphasize and promote the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of programming languages. Pic. | ||1987: Adriaan van Wijngaarden dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica (computer science) in the Netherlands. Even though he was trained as an engineer, Van Wijngaarden would emphasize and promote the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of programming languages. Pic. | ||
||1990: Alan Perlis dies ... computer scientist and academic. | ||1990: Alan Perlis dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1990: Max Koecher dies ... mathematician. | ||1990: Max Koecher dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|1999: NASA launches the spacecraft [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]]. On January 2, 2004 it will fly 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)|1999: NASA launches the spacecraft [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]]. On January 2, 2004 it will fly by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to earth on 15 January 2006. | ||
||2000: Doug Henning dies ... magician and politician. | ||2000: Doug Henning dies ... magician and politician. Pic. | ||
||2007: Alan MacDiarmid dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. His best-known research was the discovery and development of conductive polymers—plastic materials that conduct electricity. He collaborated with the Japanese chemist Hideki Shirakawa and the American physicist Alan Heeger in this research and published the first results in 1977. The three of them shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this work. Pic. | |||
||2013: The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995. | ||2013: The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995. | ||
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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.
1960: Physicist and academic Igor Kurchatov dies. Kurchatov played a leading role in the Soviet Union's clandestine nuclear weapons program, culminating in the First Lightning bomb test.
Premiere of Replicant Vice, an American crime drama television series starring Harrison Ford and Roy Batty.
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.