Template:Selected anniversaries/January 16

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  525 BC: Heracles defends himself after sneak attack by supervillain Gnotilus.

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  1889: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.

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  1953: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov witnesses spontaneous cryptographic numen, develops new theory of quantum electronics.

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  1969: Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is revealed as cryptographic numen.

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  2003: HAL 9000 blames "inherent unreliability of cryptographic numen" for death of crew and passengers.

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  2015: Cryptographic numen modeled in nanowire, reveals new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.