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File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]].  He will be burned at the stake.
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]].  He will be burned at the stake.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1931: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1931: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
||1596 – Francis Drake, English captain and explorer (b. 1540)


||1687 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Würzburg Residence and Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (d. 1753)
||1687 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German engineer and architect, designed Würzburg Residence and Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (d. 1753)
||1731 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the Piano (b. 1655)


||1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
||1785 – The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
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File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] born. He will write ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
File:Lewis Carroll.jpg|link=Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician [[Lewis Carroll (nonfiction)|Lewis Carroll]] born. He will write ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', and its sequel ''Through the Looking-Glass''.
File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=|1860: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.


||Heinrich Rose (d. 27 January 1864) was a German mineralogist and analytical chemist.  
||Heinrich Rose (d. 27 January 1864) was a German mineralogist and analytical chemist.  
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||1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
||1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with Operation Ranger.
||1596 – Francis Drake, English captain and explorer (b. 1540)
||1731 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker, invented the Piano (b. 1655)
File:János Bolyai.jpg|link=|1860: Mathematician and academic [[János Bolyai (nonfiction)|János Bolyai]] dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.


||1961 – The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
||1961 – The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.

Revision as of 19:49, 24 January 2018

  • 1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

    1593: The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno. He will be burned at the stake.

  • 1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

    1931: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.

  • 1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

    1832: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll born. He will write Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.

  • János Bolyai.jpg

    1860: Mathematician and academic János Bolyai dies. He was one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry.

  • 1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl detect and prevents crimes against mathematical constants using theory of transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

    1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl detect and prevents crimes against mathematical constants using theory of transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.

  • 1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1948: Mathematician, theorist, and crime-fighter Nikolai Luzin uses point-set topology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

    1972: Mathematician Richard Courant dies. He co-wrote What is Mathematics?.

  • 1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine counteract effects of Extract of Radium.

    1972: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine counteract effects of Extract of Radium.

  • 2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

    2010: Historian, playwright, and social activist Howard Zinn dies. He wrote extensively about the civil rights and anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States.

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