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File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which convert Newtonian principles into an early version of quantum mechanics.
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which convert Newtonian principles into an early version of quantum mechanics.


||Stephen Groombridge FRS (b. 7 January 1755) was a British merchant and astronomer.
||1755: Stephen Groombridge born ... merchant and astronomer.


||1786 – Jean-Étienne Guettard, French physician and mineralogist (b. 1715)
||1786: Jean-Étienne Guettard dies ... physician and mineralogist.


||Eilhard Mitscherlich (b. 7 January 1794) was a German chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his discovery of the phenomenon of isomorphism (crystallography) in 1819.
||1794: Eilhard Mitscherlich born ... chemist, who is perhaps best remembered today for his discovery of the phenomenon of isomorphism (crystallography) in 1819.


File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1827: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] born.  He will propose worldwide standard time zones.
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1827: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] born.  He will propose worldwide standard time zones.
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File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1835: [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] writes unit tests for [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1835: [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] writes unit tests for [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


||1871 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)
||1871: Émile Borel born ... mathematician and politician.


||1878 – François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist, physician, and physiologist (b. 1794)
||1878: François-Vincent Raspail dies ... chemist, physician, and physiologist.


File:Sekiya Seikei.jpg|link=Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|1881: Geologist and crime-fighter [[Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|Sekiya Seikei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to model the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake, exposes [[Crimes against geology|criminal organization committing earthquakes for profit]].
File:Sekiya Seikei.jpg|link=Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|1881: Geologist and crime-fighter [[Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|Sekiya Seikei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to model the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake, exposes [[Crimes against geology|criminal organization committing earthquakes for profit]].
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File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|link=Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1882: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist [[Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Ignacy Łukasiewicz]] born. He built the world's first oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp.
File:Ignacy Lukasiewicz.jpg|link=Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1882: Pharmacist, inventor, and industrialist [[Ignacy Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Ignacy Łukasiewicz]] born. He built the world's first oil refinery and invented the kerosene lamp.


||1893 – Josef Stefan, Slovenian physicist and mathematician (b. 1835) Josef Stefan (Slovene: Jozef Stefan; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) was an ethnic Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire.
||1893: Josef Stefan dies ... physicist, mathematician, and poet.


||1894 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.
||1894: William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film.


||1904 – The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
||1904: The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".


||Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn FRS (b. 7 January 1906) was a German-born British medical physicist. Pic.
||1906: Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn born ... medical physicist. Pic.


||1912 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist, created The Addams Family (d. 1988)
||1912: Charles Addams born ... cartoonist, created The Addams Family.


||Walter Noll (b. 1925) was a mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics and thermodynamics.
||1925: Walter Noll born ... mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics and thermodynamics.


||1927 – The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
||1927: The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.


File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to forecast outcomes for the [[Manhattan Project]].
File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to forecast outcomes for the [[Manhattan Project]].
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File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1943: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] dies. He made pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1943: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] dies. He made pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.


||1948 – Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
||1948: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.


||1954 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
||1954: Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head office of IBM.


||1968 – Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.
||1968: Surveyor Program: Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off from launch complex 36A, Cape Canaveral.


||1968 – J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (b. 1897)
||1968: J. L. B. Smith, South African chemist and academic (b. 1897)


||Marvin Pipkin (d. January 7, 1977) was an American chemist. During his time in the United States Army he worked on gas masks. In his civilian life he invented a process for frosting the inside of incandescent lamp bulbs to cut down on the sharp glare and diffuse the light. Pic.
||1977: Marvin Pipkin dies ... chemist. During his time in the United States Army he worked on gas masks. In his civilian life he invented a process for frosting the inside of incandescent lamp bulbs to cut down on the sharp glare and diffuse the light. Pic.


||1984 – Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
||1984: Alfred Kastler dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
||1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.

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