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1623: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi dies. He was a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
1896: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady dies. He was one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
1945: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger dies. He contributed to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 modified to run "Hello World" program.
1974: "Hello World" computer program from 1974 proud to represent "Hello World" computer programs everywhere.
1975: Techniques from High-energy literature used in "Hello World" research.
1982: Fantasy Voronoi diagram gambling ring convicted of corrupting lottery ticket data.

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 File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1623: Statesman, scientist, and historian [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]] dies. He was a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.
+||Christian Ludwig Gerling (d. 15 January 1864) studied under Carl Friedrich Gauss, obtaining his doctorate in 1812 for a thesis entitled: Methodi proiectionis orthographicae usum ad calculos parallacticos facilitandos explicavit simulque eclipsin solarem die, at the University of Göttingen. He is notable for his work on geodetics and in 1927 some 60 letters of correspondence between Gerling and Gauss on the topic were published.
 File:Mathew Brady 1875.jpg|link=Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|1896: Photographer and journalist [[Mathew Brady (nonfiction)|Mathew Brady]] dies. He was one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.