Template:Selected anniversaries/January 24

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  1201: Canterbury scrying engine retrofitted with Gnomon algorithm routines.

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  1569: Astronomer Tycho Brahe uses Gnomon algorithm functions make improved astronomical observations.

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  1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.

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  1972: New evidence suggests that The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is based on actual events.

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  1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.

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  2016: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen in broad daylight by supervillain Gnotilus.

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  2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies.

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  2016: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.