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||49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
||49 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.


||1573 – Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
||1573: Simon Marius born ... astronomer.


||1654 – Nicholas Culpeper, English botanist, physician, and astrologer (b. 1616)
||1654: Nicholas Culpeper dies ... botanist, physician, and astrologer.


||1745 – Isaac Titsingh, Dutch surgeon, scholar, and diplomat (d. 1812)
||1745: Isaac Titsingh born ... surgeon, scholar, and diplomat.


File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1776: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] publishes his pamphlet ''Common Sense''.
File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1776: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] publishes his pamphlet ''Common Sense''.
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File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.


||1802 – Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian-Austrian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (d. 1860)
||1802: Carl Ritter von Ghega born ... engineer, designed the Semmering railway.


||1833 – Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1752)
||1833: Adrien-Marie Legendre dies ... mathematician and theorist.


||1842 – Luigi Pigorini, Italian palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer (d. 1925)
||1842: Luigi Pigorini born ... palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer.


||Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov (d. 1855) was a Russian astronomer and a geodesist.
||1855: Ivan Mikhailovich Simonov dies ... astronomer and a geodesist.


File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device.
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1861: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] retrofitted with military [[scrying engine]] device.
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File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.


||1875 – Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
||1875: Issai Schur born ... mathematician and academic.


||1877 – Frederick Gardner Cottrell, American physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist (d. 1948)
||1877: Frederick Gardner Cottrell born ... physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist.


||1891 – Heinrich Behmann, German mathematician and academic (d. 1970)
||1891: Heinrich Behmann born ... mathematician and academic.


||1895 – Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American chemist, physicist, and academic (b. 1836)
||1895: Eli Whitney Blake, Jr. dies ... chemist, physicist, and academic.


||1898 – Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer (d. 1979)
||1898: Katharine Burr Blodgett born ... physicist and engineer.


||Ruth Moufang (b. January 10, 1905) was a German mathematician.
||1905: Ruth Moufang born ... mathematician.


||1907 – Gordon Kidd Teal, American engineer and inventor (d. 2003)
||1907: Gordon Kidd Teal born ... engineer and inventor.


||1911 – Norman Heatley, English biologist and chemist (d. 2004)
||1911: Norman Heatley born ... biologist and chemist.


||1916 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1916 – Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)


||Neal R. Amundson (b. January 10, 1916) was an American chemical engineer and mathematician. Amundson was considered one of the most prominent chemical engineering educators and researchers in the United States. Pic.
||1916: Neal R. Amundson born ... chemical engineer and mathematician. Amundson was considered one of the most prominent chemical engineering educators and researchers in the United States. Pic.


||Alexander L'vovich Brudno (Russian: Александр Львович Брудно) (b. January 10, 1918) was a Russian computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm.
||1918: Alexander L'vovich Brudno born ... computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm.


||Res Jost (b. 10 January 1918) was a Swiss theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory.
||1918: Res Jost born ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory.


||Wallace Clement Sabine (d. January 10, 1919) was an American physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. Pic.
||1919: Wallace Clement Sabine dies ... physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. Pic.


||Ludwig Maurer (d. 10 January 1927) was a German mathematician and professor at Tübingen University. He will be known for the Maurer-Cartan form. Pic.
||1927: Ludwig Maurer dies ... mathematician and professor at Tübingen University. He will be known for the Maurer-Cartan form. Pic.


||1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
||1927: Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.


File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1938: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] born.
File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1938: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] born.


||1941 – Issai Schur, Belarusian-German mathematician and academic (b. 1875)
||1941: Issai Schur dies ... mathematician and academic.


File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]], bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]], bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.


||1951 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1890)
||1951: Yoshio Nishina dies ... physicist and academic.


File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1960: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], announces world tour.
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1960: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], announces world tour.


||1961 – Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (b. 1894)
||1961: Dashiell Hammett dies ... detective novelist and screenwriter.


||1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
||1962: Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.


||1970 – Pavel Belyayev, Russian pilot and astronaut (b. 1925)
||1970: Pavel Belyayev dies ... pilot and astronaut.


||Delbert Ray Fulkerson (d. January 10, 1976) was an American mathematician who co-developed the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm, one of the most well-known algorithms to solve the maximum flow problem in networks. Pic.
||1976: Delbert Ray Fulkerson dies ... mathematician who co-developed the Ford–Fulkerson algorithm, one of the most well-known algorithms to solve the maximum flow problem in networks. Pic.


||1997 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
||1989: Valentin Petrovich Glushko dies ... rocket scientist who was a pioneer developer of rocket engines (1946-74). From 1929, he worked in Leningrad in GDL - the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, the military rocket research organization, founded in 1921. He worked with renowned rocket designer Sergey Korolyov (1932-1966). In Aug 1957, they successfully launched the first intercontinental ballistic missile and in October of the same year, sent the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit. He became chief designer for the Soviet space program in 1974, helping to oversee development of the Mir space station. During his life, he designed the most succesessful rocket engines in the Soviet space program. Pic.
 
||1997: Alexander R. Todd dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2007: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]''.
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2007: [[Rhizolith Group]] debuts new work based on ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]''.
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|File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|2007: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' attends debut homage performance by [[Rhizolith Group]].
|File:Dark Side of the Moon.png|link=The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|2007: ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (nonfiction)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' attends debut homage performance by [[Rhizolith Group]].


||Henry Berge Helson (d. January 10, 2010) was an American mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis. Pic.
||2010: Henry Berge Helson dies ... mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis. Pic.


||2012 – Gevork Vartanian, Russian intelligence agent (b. 1924)
||2012: Gevork Vartanian dies... Russian intelligence agent.


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