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1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.
1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.
1880: Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.
1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.
1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to counteract the effects of crimes against poetry.
2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.
2016: Ringmaster declared Picture of the Day by citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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 ||1864: Heinrich Rose dies ... mineralogist and analytical chemist.
-||Adam Sedgwick (d. 27 January 1873) was a British geologist, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale.
+||1873: Adam Sedgwick dies ... geologist, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale.
 File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] receives the patent on the incandescent lamp.