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File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1618: [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to prevent [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crimes against laws of planetary motion]].
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1618: [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to prevent [[Crimes against mathematical constants|crimes against laws of planetary motion]].


||Johann Elert Bode (b. 19 January 1747) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.
||1747: Johann Elert Bode born ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularisation of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic.


File:Termómetro_Christin_1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1755: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] dies. He invented the Celsius thermometer.
File:Termómetro_Christin_1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1755: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] dies. He invented the Celsius thermometer.


||1798 – Auguste Comte, French economist, sociologist, and philosopher (d. 1857)
||1798: Auguste Comte born ... economist, sociologist, and philosopher.


File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] born.  He will make important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1833: Mathematician and academic [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] born.  He will make important contributions to algebraic geometry and invariant theory.


||Auguste Kerckhoffs (b. 19 January 1835) was a Dutch linguist and cryptographer who was professor of languages at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Paris in the late 19th century. Pic.
||1835: Auguste Kerckhoffs born ... linguist and cryptographer who was professor of languages at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Paris in the late 19th century. Pic.


||1839 – The British East India Company captures Aden.
||1839: The British East India Company captures Aden.


||Prof Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn FRS FRSE LLD (b. 1851) was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way and was the discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation.
||1851: Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn born ... astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way and was the discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation.


||1869 – Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (b. 1788)
||1869: Carl Reichenbach dies ... chemist and philosopher.


File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1878: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] dies.  He was an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.  
File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1878: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] dies.  He was an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.  
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||1917: Seventy-three people are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.
||1917: Seventy-three people are killed and 400 injured in an explosion in a munitions plant in London.


||1920 – The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.
||1919: Bernard Gregory born ... physicist and director-general of CERN. Pic.


||John David Jackson (b. January 19, 1925) was a Canadian–American physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A theoretical physicist, he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is well known for numerous publications and summer-school lectures in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely-used graduate text on classical electrodynamics. The book is notorious for the difficulty of its problems, and its tendency to treat non-obvious conclusions as self-evident. Pic.
||1920: The United States Senate votes against joining the League of Nations.


||1930 – Frank P. Ramsey, British mathematician, philosopher and economist (b. 1903)
||1925: John David Jackson born ...physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. A theoretical physicist, he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is well known for numerous publications and summer-school lectures in nuclear and particle physics, as well as his widely-used graduate text on classical electrodynamics. The book is notorious for the difficulty of its problems, and its tendency to treat non-obvious conclusions as self-evident. Pic.


||1937 – Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.
||1930: Frank P. Ramsey dies ... mathematician, philosopher and economist.


||1937 – John Lions, Australian computer scientist and academic (d. 1998)
||1937: Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds.


||1940 – You Nazty Spy!, the very first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres, starring The Three Stooges, with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler.
||1937: John Lions born ... computer scientist and academic.


||1945 – World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.
||1940: ''You Nazty Spy!'', the very first Hollywood film of any kind to satirize Adolf Hitler and the Nazis premieres, starring The Three Stooges, with Moe Howard as the character "Moe Hailstone" satirizing Hitler.


||1946 – General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
||1945: World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź Ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation.


||1952 – Bruce Jay Nelson, American computer scientist (d. 1999)
||1946: General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.


||1953 – Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
||1952: Bruce Jay Nelson born ... computer scientist.


||1954 – Theodor Kaluza, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1885)
||1953: Almost 72% of all television sets in the United States are tuned into ''I Love Lucy'' to watch Lucy give birth.


||1976 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (b. 1886). He wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world. Pic.
||1954: Theodor Kaluza dies ... mathematician and physicist.


||1977 – President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
||1976: Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic dies ... he wrote articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world. Pic.
 
||1977: President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").


File:Petrozavodsk phenomenon photo copy.jpg|link=Petrozavodsk phenomenon (nonfiction)|1978: Steganographic analysis of the [[Petrozavodsk phenomenon (nonfiction)|Petrozavodsk phenomenon]] reveals "nearly half a megabyte" of top-secret data relating to the alleged "[[ENIAC (SETI)|Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]" program.
File:Petrozavodsk phenomenon photo copy.jpg|link=Petrozavodsk phenomenon (nonfiction)|1978: Steganographic analysis of the [[Petrozavodsk phenomenon (nonfiction)|Petrozavodsk phenomenon]] reveals "nearly half a megabyte" of top-secret data relating to the alleged "[[ENIAC (SETI)|Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]" program.


||1981 – Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
||1981: Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.


||1986 – The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.
||1986: The first IBM PC computer virus is released into the wild. A boot sector virus dubbed (c)Brain, it was created by the Farooq Alvi Brothers in Lahore, Pakistan, reportedly to deter unauthorized copying of the software they had written.


||1991 – Marcel Chaput, Canadian biochemist and journalist (b. 1918)
||1991: Marcel Chaput dies ... biochemist and journalist.


||Daryl Muscott Chapin (d. 19 January 1995) was an American physicist, best known for co-inventing solar cells in 1954 during his work at Bell Labs alongside Calvin S. Fuller and Gerald Pearson. Pic.
||1995: Daryl Muscott Chapin dies ... physicist, best known for co-inventing solar cells in 1954 during his work at Bell Labs alongside Calvin S. Fuller and Gerald Pearson. Pic.


||Abraham "Abe" Sinkov (d. January 19, 1998) was a US cryptanalyst.
||1998: Abraham "Abe" Sinkov dies ... cryptanalyst.


||1999 – British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.
||1999: British Aerospace agrees to acquire the defence subsidiary of the General Electric Company plc, forming BAE Systems in November 1999.


||Paul Olum (b. January 19, 2001) was an American mathematician (algebraic topology), professor of mathematics, and university administrator. Pic.
||2001: Paul Olum dies ... mathematician (algebraic topology), professor of mathematics, and university administrator. Pic.


||John Maynard Smith (d. 19 April 2004) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory. Pic.
||2004: John Maynard Smith dies ... theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory. Pic.


||2007 – Turkish-Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.
||2007: Turkish-Armenian Journalist Hrant Dink is assassinated in front of his newspaper's Istanbul office by 17-year-old Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast.


||2012 – The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.
||2012: The Hong Kong-based file-sharing website Megaupload is shut down by the FBI.


File:Justin Virgilius Capră.jpg|link=Justin Capră (nonfiction)|2015: Engineer and inventor [[Justin Capră (nonfiction)|Justin Capră]] dies. He designed fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.
File:Justin Virgilius Capră.jpg|link=Justin Capră (nonfiction)|2015: Engineer and inventor [[Justin Capră (nonfiction)|Justin Capră]] dies. He designed fuel-efficient cars, unconventional engines, aircraft, and jet backpacks.


||Karl H. Pribram (d. January 19, 2015) was a professor at Georgetown University, in the United States, an emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and distinguished professor at Radford University. Board-certified as a neurosurgeon, Pribram did pioneering work on the definition of the limbic system, the relationship of the frontal cortex to the limbic system, the sensory-specific "association" cortex of the parietal and temporal lobes, and the classical motor cortex of the human brain. He worked with Karl Lashley at the Yerkes Primate Center of which he was to become director later. He was professor at Yale University for ten years and at Stanford University for thirty years. To the general public, Pribram is best known for his development of the holonomic brain model of cognitive function and his contribution to ongoing neurological research into memory, emotion, motivation and consciousness. Pic.
||2015: Karl H. Pribram dies ... professor of psychology and psychiatry at Stanford University and distinguished professor at Radford University. Board-certified as a neurosurgeon, Pribram did pioneering work on the definition of the limbic system, the relationship of the frontal cortex to the limbic system, the sensory-specific "association" cortex of the parietal and temporal lobes, and the classical motor cortex of the human brain. He worked with Karl Lashley at the Yerkes Primate Center of which he was to become director later. He was professor at Yale University for ten years and at Stanford University for thirty years. To the general public, Pribram is best known for his development of the holonomic brain model of cognitive function and his contribution to ongoing neurological research into memory, emotion, motivation and consciousness. Pic.


File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|2016: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|2016: Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."

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