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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.


||Charles Piazzi Smyth (b. 3 January 1819) was an English astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Pic.
||1819: Charles Piazzi Smyth born ... astronomer who was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1846 to 1888; he is known for many innovations in astronomy and his pyramidological and metrological studies of the Great Pyramid of Giza. 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.
||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.


||Heinrich Eduard Schröter (d. 3 January 1892) was a German mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. Pic.
||1892: Heinrich Eduard Schröter dies ... mathematician, who studied geometry in the tradition of Jakob Steiner. Pic.


||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.
||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.


||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.
||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.


||Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova (b. 1921) was a Russian historian of mathematics. Pic.
||1920: Zygmunt Janiszewski dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Janiszewski


||1927 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1856)
||1921: Isabella Grigoryevna Bashmakova born ... historian of mathematics. Pic.


||1932 – Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
||1927: Carl David Tolmé Runge dies ... physicist and mathematician.


||1945 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic and author (b. 1877)
||1932: Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
 
||1945: Edgar Cayce, American psychic and author (b. 1877)


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]].
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]].
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File:Mel Gibson Cannes 2011.jpg|link=Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|1954: Actor and filmmaker [[Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|Mel Gibson]] born.
File:Mel Gibson Cannes 2011.jpg|link=Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|1954: Actor and filmmaker [[Mel Gibson (nonfiction)|Mel Gibson]] born.


||1956 – A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
||1956: A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
 
||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.


|File:The Hal Jordan Playbook.jpg|link=The Hal Jordan Playbook|1964: ''[[The Hal Jordan Playbook]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize.
||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.


File:Antikythera Team logo.svg|link=Antikythera Team|1965: [[Antikythera Team]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Antikythera Team logo.svg|link=Antikythera Team|1965: [[Antikythera Team]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].


||1967 – Reginald Punnett, British scientist (b. 1875)
||1967: Reginald Punnett dies ... scientist.
 
||1967 – Jack Ruby, American businessman and murderer (b. 1911)
 
||1969 – Jean Focas, Greek-French astronomer (b. 1909)


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


||1989 – Sergei Sobolev, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1909)
||1969: Jean Focas dies ... astronomer.


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


|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.


||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.


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


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: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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