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File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1641: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.
File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1641: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] dies. He was the first person to demonstrate that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit.


||Johann Georg Büsch (b. January 3, 1728) was a German mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce.
||1728: Johann Georg Büsch born ... mathematics teacher and writer on statistics and commerce. Pic.


||1819 – Charles Piazzi Smyth, Italian-Scottish astronomer and academic (d. 1900)
File:Louis_Poinsot.jpg|link=Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|1777: Mathematician and physicist [[Louis Poinsot (nonfiction)|Louis Poinsot]] born. Poinsot will invent geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body can be resolved into a single force and a couple.


||1888 – The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.
File:Charles Piazzi Smyth.jpg|link=Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|1819: Astronomer [[Charles Piazzi Smyth (nonfiction)|Charles Piazzi Smyth]] born. Smyth will make innovations in astronomy, and make pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza.


||Heinrich Eduard Schröter (d. 3 January 1892) was a German mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. Pic.
||1888: The James Lick telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest refracting telescope in the world at the time.


||Frank Haven Hall (d. January 3, 1911) was an American inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking.
||1892: Heinrich Eduard Schröter dies ... mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. Pic.


||John Ralph Ragazzini (b. January 3, 1912) was an American electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering. Ragazzini pioneered the development of the z-transform method in discrete-time signal processing and analysis. Pic.
||1906: William Wilson Morgan born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. The principal theme in Dr. Morgan's work was stellar and galaxy classification. He is also known for helping prove the existence of spiral arms in our galaxy. Pic search.


||Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova (b. 1921) was a Russian historian of mathematics. Pic.
||1911: Frank Haven Hall dies ... inventor, author, academic administrator, and theoretical structuralist. He invented the first successful mechanical point writer and developed major functions of modern day typography with kerning and tracking. Pic.


||1927 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1856)
||1912: John Ralph Ragazzini born ... electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering. Ragazzini pioneered the development of the z-transform method in discrete-time signal processing and analysis. Pic.


||1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
||1920: Zygmunt Janiszewski dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Janiszewski


||1945 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic and author (b. 1877)
||1921: Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova born ... historian of mathematics. Pic.


File:Erwin Schrödinger (1933).jpg|link=Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|1953: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|Erwin Schrödinger]] uses the Schrödinger equation to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1927: Carl David Tolmé Runge dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic search.


File:Mel Gibson Cannes 2011.jpg|link=Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|1954: Actor and filmmaker [[Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|Mel Gibson]] born.
||1932: Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.


||1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
||1946: Carl Gustav Witt dies ... astronomer and discover of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin. Pic.


||1961 – The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
||1945: Edgar Cayce dies ... psychic and author. Pic.


|File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize.
|File:Mel Gibson Cannes 2011.jpg|link=Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|1954: Actor and filmmaker [[Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|Mel Gibson]] born.


File:Antikythera Team logo.svg|link=Antikythera Team|1965: [[Antikythera Team]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
||1956: A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.


||1967 – Reginald Punnett, British scientist (b. 1875)
||1961: The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.


||1967 – Jack Ruby, American businessman and murderer (b. 1911)
||1967: Reginald Punnett dies ... scientist. He is best remembered today as the creator of the Punnett square, a tool still used by biologists to predict the probability of possible genotypes of offspring. Pic.


||1969 – Jean Focas, Greek-French astronomer (b. 1909)
File:The Trouble With Triffids.jpg|link=The Trouble With Triffids|1967: Premiere of "'''[[The Trouble With Triffids]]'''", one of the "Forbidden Episodes" of the television series ''Star Trek''.


||1977 – William Gropper, American lithographer, cartoonist, and painter (b. 1897)
||1967: Jack Ruby dies ... businessman and murderer. Pic.


||1989 – Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)
||1969: Jean Focas dies ... astronomer. No pic online.


||1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
||1977: William Gropper dies ... lithographer, cartoonist, and painter. Pic.


|File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|2009: Documentary film-maker [[Ridley Scott]] announces Kickstarter campaign to fund new film named ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''.
||1989: Sergei Sobolev dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||2009 The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
||1999: The Mars Polar Lander is launched.
 
||2009: The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
 
||2013: Marianne Grunberg-Manago dies ... biochemist and academic. Her work helped make possible key discoveries about the nature of the genetic code. Pic search.
 
File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter Naur]] dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.


|File:Eel hates statue.jpg|link=The Eel Hates Peter Aal|2012: Supervillain and art critic [[The Eel]] condemns ''[[Bernd Maro (nonfiction)|Peter Aal]]''.


File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|2016: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter]] Naur dies. His main areas of inquiry were design, structure and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
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