Template:Selected anniversaries/January 5: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 09:56, 23 December 2016

1601: Submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel warns The Eel "stay out of Dutch waters."
Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to build a new type of scrying engine.
Cube deliver lecture on geometry.
Bergamot essential oil gives Charles Grey the strength to carry on against all opposition.

@@ Line 5: / Line 5: @@
 File:Bergamot essential oil.jpg|link=Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|[[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot essential oil]] gives [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey]] the strength to carry on against all opposition.
 </gallery>
-– Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
-– United States President Richard Nixon orders the development of a Space Shuttle program.
-– Camille Jordan, French mathematician and academic (d. 1922)
-– Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1920)
-– Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer (d. 1976)
-– Ezra Otis Kendall, American professor, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1818)
-– Max Born, German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)