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||1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. | ||1933 – Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. | ||
||Mathematician Dmitry Semionovitch Mirimanoff (d. 5 January 1945) dies. | |||
||Joseph Fels Ritt (d. January 5, 1951) was an American mathematician | ||Joseph Fels Ritt (d. January 5, 1951) was an American mathematician | ||
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1625: Astronomer Simon Marius dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
1723: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute born. She will predict the return of Halley's Comet, calculate the timing of a solar eclipse, and construct a group of catalogs for the stars.
1812: Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to build a new type of scrying engine.
1895: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.
