Template:Selected anniversaries/January 2
1822: Rudolf Clausius born. He will be one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
1905: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann born. He will prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.
1943: Vandal Savage Press publishes the V-2 edition of Field Report Number One.
1954: Lex Luthor announces new initiative to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1959: Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
1959: "An Evil bit was released in 1923," according to Lex Luthor.
1994: Diagram of public-key cryptography generation held hostage, kidnappers demand million-dollar ransom.