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||1789: Claude "Claudius" Crozet born ... soldier, educator, and civil engineer. He will work as a professor of engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York; during this time he will (by some accounts) be the first to use the chalkboard as an instructional tool. Pic. | ||1789: Claude "Claudius" Crozet born ... soldier, educator, and civil engineer. He will work as a professor of engineering at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York; during this time he will (by some accounts) be the first to use the chalkboard as an instructional tool. Pic. | ||
||1811: Patrick Wilson (generally known as Peter Wilson) astronomer, type-founder, mathematician and meteorologist dies. | ||1811: Patrick Wilson (generally known as Peter Wilson) astronomer, type-founder, mathematician and meteorologist dies. Pic: cameo bust. | ||
File:Crystal_palace_iguanodon.jpg|link=Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (nonfiction)|1853: Banquet held in the mould of the [[Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (nonfiction)|Crystal Palace Iguanodon]]. | File:Crystal_palace_iguanodon.jpg|link=Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (nonfiction)|1853: Banquet held in the mould of the [[Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (nonfiction)|Crystal Palace Iguanodon]]. | ||
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||1872: Onorato Nicoletti dies ... mathematician. He published works in various fields of mathematics, including numerical analysis, infinitesmal analysis, the equations related to hermitian matrices, and differential equations. Pic. | ||1872: Onorato Nicoletti dies ... mathematician. He published works in various fields of mathematics, including numerical analysis, infinitesmal analysis, the equations related to hermitian matrices, and differential equations. Pic. | ||
||1878: Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879. | ||1878: Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879. Pic. | ||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1879: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey. | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1879: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey. | ||
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||1991: All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date 5 days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved. | ||1991: All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date 5 days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved. | ||
||2003: Arthur R. von Hippel dies ... physicist and author. | ||2003: Arthur R. von Hippel dies ... physicist and author. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=arthur+r.+von+hippel | ||
||2004: Gérard Debreu dies ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2004: Gérard Debreu dies ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1610: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen dies. He spent a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.
1738: Mathematician and crime-fighter Johann Bernouli publishes new theory of infinitesimal calculus which has applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1853: Banquet held in the mould of the Crystal Palace Iguanodon.
1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1894: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes dies. He worked on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, and was called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."
1900: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin dies. He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film.
1969: Computer scientist and APTO liaison Grace Hopper visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse, where she delivers an impromptu lecture on applications of distributed computation in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1980: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan dies. He coined the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
1970: Extract of Radium wishes you a Happy New Year!
2007: The Deep Impact spacecraft flies by Earth on an extended mission to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley).
2016: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars fully funded by Kickstarter.
2017: Mad King voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.