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File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1638: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1638: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1769 – André-Jacques Garnerin, French balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute (d. 1823)
||1769: André-Jacques Garnerin born ... balloonist and the inventor of the frameless parachute.


||1854 – David Emmanuel, Romanian mathematician and academic (d. 1941)
||1854: David Emmanuel born ... mathematician and academic.


||1862 – Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
||1862: Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47 cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.


||1868 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)
||1868: Theodore William Richards born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1881 – Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
||1881: Irving Langmuir born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1896 – Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian (d. 1966)
||1896: Sofya Yanovskaya born ... mathematician and historian.


||John "Jack" Roland Redman (b. January 31, 1898) was an admiral in the United States Navy. A naval communications officer, he played key roles in signals intelligence during World War II in Washington, D.C., and on the staff of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
||1898: John "Jack" Roland Redman born ... admiral in the United States Navy. A naval communications officer, he played key roles in signals intelligence during World War II in Washington, D.C., and on the staff of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.


||Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop (b. 31 January 1911) was an Australian physicist and humanitarian. Pic.
||1911: Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop born ... physicist and humanitarian. Pic.


||1915 – World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
||1915: World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.


||1928 – Irma Wyman, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 2015)
||1928: Irma Wyman born ... computer scientist and engineer.


||1929 – Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
||1929: Rudolf Mössbauer born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] uses the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] uses the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1950 – United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
||1950: United States President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.


||Edwin Howard Armstrong (d. January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system.
||1954: Edwin Howard Armstrong dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio and the superheterodyne receiver system.


||1958 – The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
||1958: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.


||1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
||1961: Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.


||1966 – The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
||1966: The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.


||1968: Theoretical physicist and professor [[Earle Hesse Kennard (nonfiction)|Earle Hesse Kennard]] born.
||1968: Theoretical physicist and professor [[Earle Hesse Kennard (nonfiction)|Earle Hesse Kennard]] born.


||1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
||1971: Apollo program: Apollo 14: Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.


File:Winter Soldier Investigation.gif|link=Winter Soldier Investigation (nonfiction)|1971: The [[Winter Soldier Investigation (nonfiction)|Winter Soldier Investigation]], organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.
File:Winter Soldier Investigation.gif|link=Winter Soldier Investigation (nonfiction)|1971: The [[Winter Soldier Investigation (nonfiction)|Winter Soldier Investigation]], organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit.


||Emanuel Sperner (d. 31 January 1980) was a German mathematician. He proposed Sperner's theorem, which says that the size of an antichain in the power set of an n-set (a Sperner family) is at most the middle binomial coefficient(s).
||1980: Emanuel Sperner dies ... mathematician. He proposed Sperner's theorem, which says that the size of an antichain in the power set of an n-set (a Sperner family) is at most the middle binomial coefficient(s).


File:M247 Sergeant York.png|link=M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|1982: [[M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|M247 has bad feeling about big presentation in February.]]
File:M247 Sergeant York.png|link=M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|1982: [[M247 Sergeant York (nonfiction)|M247 has bad feeling about big presentation in February.]]


||1990 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist and academic (b. 1935)
||1990: Rashad Khalifa dies ... biochemist and academic.


File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies.
File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|2001: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] dies.


File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|2002: [[Anarchimedes]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|2002: [[Anarchimedes]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||2004: Edwin Albert Power dies ... physicist and an emeritus professor of applied mathematics. He made several contributions to the field of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). Pic.


File:Dick Cavett.jpg|link=Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|2008: Talk show host [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.
File:Dick Cavett.jpg|link=Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|2008: Talk show host [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] attends the 2008 Amfar Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.

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