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||1587 – Johannes Fabricius, German astronomer and academic (d. 1616)
||1587: Johannes Fabricius born ... astronomer and academic.


File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1602: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1602: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1774: Mathematician,  philosopher, theologian, and crime-fighter [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses a new synthesis of differential and integral calculus to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1774: Mathematician,  philosopher, theologian, and crime-fighter [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses a new synthesis of differential and integral calculus to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1775 – John Baskerville, English printer and type designer (b. 1706)
||1775: John Baskerville dies ... printer and type designer.


||1823 – Alfred Russel Wallace, Welsh-English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1913)
||1823: Alfred Russel Wallace born ... geographer, biologist, and explorer.


||1825 – Eli Whitney, American engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin (b. 1765)
||1825: Eli Whitney dies ... engineer and theorist, invented the cotton gin.


||Heinrich Eduard Schröter (b. 8 January 1829) was a German mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. Pic.
||1829: Heinrich Eduard Schröter born ... mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. Pic.


||1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
||1835: The United States national debt is zero for the only time.


||Giovanni Frattini (b. 8 January 1852) was an Italian mathematician, noted for his contributions to group theory.
||1852: Giovanni Frattini born ... mathematician, noted for his contributions to group theory.


||Sir Frank Watson Dyson (b. 8 January 1868) was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic.
||1868: Sir Frank Watson Dyson born ... astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic.


File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] born.  He will co-write ''What is Mathematics?''.
File:Richard Courant.jpg|link=Richard Courant (nonfiction)|1888: Mathematician [[Richard Courant (nonfiction)|Richard Courant]] born.  He will co-write ''What is Mathematics?''.
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File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1889: [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1889: [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.


||1891 – Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
||1891: Walther Bothe born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1892: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] uses alternating current (AC) generators to predict and prevent [[crimes against physics]].
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1892: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] uses alternating current (AC) generators to predict and prevent [[crimes against physics]].
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||1952: Antonia Maury dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist.
||1952: Antonia Maury dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist.


||Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (d. January 8, 1956, Newton, Massachusetts) was a United States radio pioneer. He was responsible for the development of the crystal detector, (cat's whisker detector), a radio wave detector which was the central component in early radio receivers called crystal radios. He also experimented with antennas, radio wave propagation, and noise suppression. Pic.
||1956: Greenleaf Whittier Pickard dies ... radio pioneer. He was responsible for the development of the crystal detector, (cat's whisker detector), a radio wave detector which was the central component in early radio receivers called crystal radios. He also experimented with antennas, radio wave propagation, and noise suppression. Pic.


||1956 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
||1956: Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries are killed by the Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.


||Charles Loewner (d. 8 January 1968) was an American mathematician. One of his central mathematical contributions is the proof of the Bieberbach conjecture in the first highly nontrivial case of the third coefficient. The technique he introduced, the Loewner differential equation, has had far-reaching implications in geometric function theory. Pic.
||1968: Charles Loewner dies ... mathematician. One of his central mathematical contributions is the proof of the Bieberbach conjecture in the first highly nontrivial case of the third coefficient. The technique he introduced, the Loewner differential equation, has had far-reaching implications in geometric function theory. Pic.


||1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
||1963: Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.


||1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
||1973: Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.


||1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1973: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.


||1980 – John Mauchly, American physicist and academic (b. 1907)
||1980: John Mauchly dies ... physicist and academic.


File:Marhall Harvey Stone Zurich 1932.jpg|link=Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|1981: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|Marshall Harvey Stone]] publishes new class of  Boolean algebra structures which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Marhall Harvey Stone Zurich 1932.jpg|link=Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|1981: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|Marshall Harvey Stone]] publishes new class of  Boolean algebra structures which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
||1981: A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".


||1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
||1982: Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.


||Ronald J. DiPerna (d. 8 January 1989) was an American mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations.
||1989: Ronald J. DiPerna dies ... mathematician, who worked on nonlinear partial differential equations.


|File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: Animated [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram develops self-awareness, computes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1994: Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.


||1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
||1997: Melvin Calvin dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1997 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
||2002: Alexander Prokhorov dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2002 – Alexander Prokhorov, Australian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
||2002: Maurice Stevenson Bartlett dies ... statistician who made particular contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns. He is also known for his work in the theory of statistical inference and in multivariate analysis.


||2005 – The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
||2005: The nuclear sub USS San Francisco collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.


||2012 – Bernhard Schrader, German chemist and academic (b. 1931)
||2012: Bernhard Schrader dies ... chemist and academic.


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