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||1928 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016) | ||1928 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016) | ||
||Edgar Lee Hewett ( | ||Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (d. 1940) was a French physician, physicist, and inventor of the moving-coil D'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century. | ||
||Edgar Lee Hewett (d. 1946) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist whose focus was the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States. He is best known for his role in gaining passage of the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement | |||
||1955 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year. | ||1955 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year. | ||
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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: Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to detect and expose Extract of Radium marketing campaign.
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.