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||AD 98: Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent.
||AD 98: Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire would reach its maximum extent. Pic: bust.


||1302: Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence. Pic.
||1302: Dante Alighieri is exiled from Florence. DOB/DOD uncertain. Pic.


||1343: Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull ''Unigenitus'' to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
||1343: Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull ''Unigenitus'' to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this. Pic.


File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]].  He will be burned at the stake.
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]].  He will be burned at the stake.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1931: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1931: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.


||1596: Francis Drake dies ... captain and explorer.
||1596: Francis Drake dies ... captain and explorer. DOB uncertain. Pic.


||1687: Johann Balthasar Neumann born ... engineer and architect, designed Würzburg Residence and Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=johann+balthasar+neumann
||1687: Johann Balthasar Neumann born ... engineer and architect, designed Würzburg Residence and Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=johann+balthasar+neumann


||1731: Bartolomeo Cristofori dies ... instrument maker, invented the Piano.
||1731: Bartolomeo Cristofori dies ... instrument maker, invented the Piano. Pic.


||1785: The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
||1785: The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.


||1795: Eli Whitney Blake born ... engineer, invented the Mortise lock.
||1795: Eli Whitney Blake born ... engineer, invented the Mortise lock. Pic.


||1823: Charles Hutton dies ... mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion.
||1823: Charles Hutton dies ... mathematician and surveyor. He was professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich from 1773 to 1807. He is remembered for his calculation of the density of the earth from Nevil Maskelyne's observations on Schiehallion. Pic.


File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] born. He will write ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] born. He will write ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
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File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1860: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=János Bolyai (nonfiction)|1860: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.


||1864: Heinrich Rose dies ... mineralogist and analytical chemist.  
||1864: Heinrich Rose dies ... mineralogist and analytical chemist. Pic.


||1873: Adam Sedgwick dies ... geologist, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale.
||1873: Adam Sedgwick dies ... geologist, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale. Pic.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
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||1898: Erich Ernest Zepler born ... electronics expert and chess problem composer. Pic.
||1898: Erich Ernest Zepler born ... electronics expert and chess problem composer. Pic.


||1903: Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson born ... mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle.
||1903: Howard P. Robertson born ... mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=howard+p.+robertson


||1903: John Carew Eccles born ... neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin.
||1903: John Carew Eccles born ... neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. Pic (cool tech).


||1904: Statistician and academic Evelyn Fix born ... She and Joseph Hodges, Jr. will publish a groundbreaking paper, "Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties," which defines the nearest neighbor rule, an important method which will later become a key piece of machine learning technologies, the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm.  Pic: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/biographies/evelyn-fix
||1904: Statistician and academic Evelyn Fix born ... She and Joseph Hodges, Jr. will publish a groundbreaking paper, "Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties," which defines the nearest neighbor rule, an important method which will later become a key piece of machine learning technologies, the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm.  Pic: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/biographies/evelyn-fix


||1912: Arne Næss born ... philosopher and environmentalist.
||1912: Arne Næss born ... philosopher and environmentalist. He will be an important intellectual and inspirational figure within the environmental movement of the late twentieth century, advocating for biological diversity and the understanding that each living thing is dependent on the existence of other creatures in the complex web of interrelationships. He will coin the phrase "deep ecology". Pic.


||1912: Francis Rogallo born ... engineer, invented the Rogallo wing.
||1912: Francis Rogallo born ... engineer, invented the Rogallo wing.

Revision as of 08:26, 27 January 2019

  • 1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

    1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

  • 1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

    1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

  • 1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

    1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

  • 1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

    1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

  • 1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.

    1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.

  • 1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

    1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

  • 1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to counteract the effects of crimes against poetry.

    1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to counteract the effects of crimes against poetry.

  • 2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

    2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

  • 2016: Ringmaster declared Picture of the Day by citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2016: Ringmaster declared Picture of the Day by citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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