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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.
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.
||1759 – The British Museum opens.
||1777 – American Revolutionary War: New Connecticut (present-day Vermont) declares its independence.
||1782 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the U.S. Congress to recommend establishment of a national mint and decimal coinage.
||1790 – John Landen, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1719)
||1818 – A paper by British physicist David Brewster is read to the Royal Society, belatedly announcing his discovery of what we now call the biaxial class of doubly-refracting crystals. On the same day, French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs a seminal "supplement" (submitted four days later) on reflection of polarized light. It is Fresnel who will eventually solve the formidable problem of accounting for the directions and polarizations of the refracted rays in Brewster's biaxial crystals.
||1850 – Leonard Darwin, English soldier, eugenicist, and politician (d. 1943)
||1850 – Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (d. 1891)
||1855 – Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (b. 1780)


||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.  
||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.  
||1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
||1895 – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)


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.
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.
||1908 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (d. 2003)
||1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m).


||Jérôme Eugène Coggia (d. 15 January 1919) was a 19th-century French astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets
||Jérôme Eugène Coggia (d. 15 January 1919) was a 19th-century French astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets
||1919 – Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.
||1936 – The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
||1943 – The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.


File:Wilhelm Wirtinger.jpg|link=Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Wirtinger]] dies. He contributed to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.
File:Wilhelm Wirtinger.jpg|link=Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician [[Wilhelm Wirtinger (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Wirtinger]] dies. He contributed to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.
||1962 – The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
||1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
||1969 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.


File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] modified to run [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" program]].
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] modified to run [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" program]].


||Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky, (d. 15 January 1973) Mathematician working mainly in the field of partial differential equations. He greatly contributed to the solution of Hilbert's 19th and 16th problems, and discovered what are now called Petrovsky lacunas. He also worked on the theories of boundary value problems, probability, and on the topology of algebraic curves and surfaces.
||Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky, (d. 15 January 1973) Mathematician working mainly in the field of partial differential equations. He greatly contributed to the solution of Hilbert's 19th and 16th problems, and discovered what are now called Petrovsky lacunas. He also worked on the theories of boundary value problems, probability, and on the topology of algebraic curves and surfaces.
||1973 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.


File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 proud to represent [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer programs]] everywhere.  
File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer program]] from 1974 proud to represent [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" computer programs]] everywhere.  
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File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|1982: [[Fantasy Voronoi diagram]] gambling ring convicted of [[crimes against mathematical constants|corrupting lottery ticket data]].
File:Voronoi-diagram-color-commentators.jpg|link=Fantasy Voronoi diagram|1982: [[Fantasy Voronoi diagram]] gambling ring convicted of [[crimes against mathematical constants|corrupting lottery ticket data]].
||2001 – Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
||2001 – Leo Marks, English cryptographer, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
||2005 – ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the Moon.


File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: The robotic spacecraft [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]] flies by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to Earth on 15 January 2006.
File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2004: The robotic spacecraft [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]] flies by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to Earth on 15 January 2006.
||2007 – James Hillier, Canadian-American computer scientist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (b. 1915)
||2014 – John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author (b. 1915)


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