Template:Selected anniversaries/January 8
1642: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei dies. He has been called the "father of modern physics".
1697 Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot publishes satirical history of crimes against mathematical constants.
1888: Mathematician Richard Courant born. He will co-write What is Mathematics?.
1892: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla uses alternating current (AC) generators to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1923: Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum born. He will become one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
1964: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage.
1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram computes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
2014: Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association votes against transdimensional corporation status.