Template:Selected anniversaries/January 2

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  1822: Rudolf Clausius born. He will be one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.

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  1905: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann born. He will prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.

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  1919: New type of scrying engine used to predict crimes against mathematical constants.

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  1920: Writer Isaac Asimov born. He will be considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.

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  1943: Vandal Savage Press publishes the V-2 edition of Field Report Number One.

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  1959: Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.

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  1959: "An Evil bit was released in 1923," according to Lex Luthor.

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  1994: Diagram of public-key cryptography generation held hostage, kidnappers demand million-dollar ransom.