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||1514 – Andreas Vesalius, Belgian anatomist, physician, and author (d. 1564)
||1552 – Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1610: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] dies. He spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.
File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1610: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] dies. He spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.
||1679 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
||1691 – Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1627)
||1714 – Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese mathematician and educator (d. 1783)
||1719 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer and academic (b. 1646)
||1776 – Johann Spurzheim, German-American physician and phrenologist (d. 1832)
File:Crystal_palace_iguanodon.jpg|link=Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (nonfiction)|1853: Banquet held in the mould of the [[Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (nonfiction)|Crystal Palace Iguanodon]].
File:Crystal_palace_iguanodon.jpg|link=Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (nonfiction)|1853: Banquet held in the mould of the [[Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (nonfiction)|Crystal Palace Iguanodon]].
File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1854: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to wish you a Happy New Year.
 
||James David Forbes FRS FRSE FGS (20 April 1809 – 31 December 1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. He invented the seismometer.
|File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1854: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to wish you a Happy New Year.
 
||1864 – Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer and academic (d. 1951)
 
||James David Forbes FRS FRSE FGS (d. 31 December 1868) was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. He invented the seismometer.
 
||1878 – Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
 
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1879: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.


File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1894: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] dies. He worked on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, and was called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."
File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1894: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] dies. He worked on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, and was called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."


File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1900: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] dies.  He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film.
File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1900: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] dies.  He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film.
||1905 – Helen Dodson Prince, American astronomer and academic (d. 2002)
||1928 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)
||1955 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.


File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1969: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[Extract of Radium]] marketing campaign.
File:Brion Gysin scrying engine Dreamachine.jpg|link=Brion Gysin|1969: [[Brion Gysin]] uses hand-held [[scrying engine]] to detect and expose [[Extract of Radium]] marketing campaign.
File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|1980: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory [[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] dies. He coined the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|1980: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory [[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] dies. He coined the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|1970: [[Extract of Radium]] wishes you a Happy New Year!
File:Woodward and Burroughs distill Extract of Radium.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|1970: [[Extract of Radium]] wishes you a Happy New Year!
||1983 – The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
||1991 – All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date 5 days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
||2003 – Arthur R. von Hippel German-American physicist and author (b. 1898)
||2004 – Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
File:Deep Impact.png|link=Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2007: The [[Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Deep Impact]] spacecraft flies by Earth on an extended mission to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley).
File:Deep Impact.png|link=Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2007: The [[Deep Impact (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Deep Impact]] spacecraft flies by Earth on an extended mission to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley).
||2011 – NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
File:Brainiac visits British Museum.jpg|link=Brainiac (nonfiction)|2016: [[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] wishes you a Computationally Successful New Year.
File:Brainiac visits British Museum.jpg|link=Brainiac (nonfiction)|2016: [[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] wishes you a Computationally Successful New Year.
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  • 1610: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen dies. He spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.

    1610: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen dies. He spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.

  • 1853: Banquet held in the mould of the Crystal Palace Iguanodon.

    1853: Banquet held in the mould of the Crystal Palace Iguanodon.

  • 1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

    1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

  • 1894: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes dies. He worked on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, and was called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."

    1894: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes dies. He worked on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, and was called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."

  • 1900: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin dies. He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film.

    1900: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin dies. He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film.

  • 1969: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to detect and expose Extract of Radium marketing campaign.

    1969: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to detect and expose Extract of Radium marketing campaign.

  • 1980: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan dies. He coined the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".

    1980: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan dies. He coined the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".

  • 1970: Extract of Radium wishes you a Happy New Year!

    1970: Extract of Radium wishes you a Happy New Year!

  • 2007: The Deep Impact spacecraft flies by Earth on an extended mission to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley).

    2007: The Deep Impact spacecraft flies by Earth on an extended mission to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley).

  • 2016: Brainiac wishes you a Computationally Successful New Year.

    2016: Brainiac wishes you a Computationally Successful New Year.

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