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||1868: James David Forbes ... physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. He invented the seismometer. | ||1868: James David Forbes ... physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. He invented the seismometer. | ||
||1872: Onorato Nicoletti dies ... mathematician. He published works in various fields of mathematics, including numerical analysis, infinitesmal analysis, the equations related to hermitian matrices, and differential equations. Pic. | |||
||1878: Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879. | ||1878: Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879. | ||
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||1899: Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik born ... mathematician. He is famous for his work in topology and differential geometry, to which he applied the variational principle. | ||1899: Lazar Aronovich Lyusternik born ... mathematician. He is famous for his work in topology and differential geometry, to which he applied the variational principle. | ||
||1900: Selma Burke born ... American sculptor and a member of the Harlem Renaissance movement. Burke is best known for a bas relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which inspired the profile found on the obverse of the dime. She described herself as "a people's sculptor" and created many pieces of public art, often portraits of prominent African-American figures like Duke Ellington, Mary McLeod Bethune and Booker T. Washington. Pic. | |||
File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1900: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] dies. He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film. | File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1900: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] dies. He invented and patented rolled celluloid photographic film. | ||
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||1928: Siné born ... cartoonist. | ||1928: Siné born ... cartoonist. | ||
|| | ||1930: Jaime Gutierrez born ... educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film, Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos. Pic. | ||
||1940: Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval dies ... 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. | ||1940: Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval dies ... 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. | ||
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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.
2017: Mad King voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.