Template:Selected anniversaries/January 1

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  1933: Ready Kilowatt makes cameo appearance in Dard Hunter Versus the Shape Thief.

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  2016: Turkish delight found at scene of crime against mathematical constants, crime team of Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus suspected.

1801 – Ceres, the largest and first known object in the Asteroid belt, is discovvered by Giuseppe Piazzi.

1983 – The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.

1803 – Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1869)

1878 – Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician, statistician, and engineer (d. 1929)

1894 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist and mathematician (d. 1974)

1895 – J. Edgar Hoover, American law enforcement official; 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (d. 1972)

1748 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and academic (b. 1667)

1862 – Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)

1992 – Grace Hopper, American computer scientist and admiral, co-developed COBOL (b. 1906)