January 23rd
1556 - The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits resulting in a death toll perhaps as high as 830,000.
1719 - Birth of John Landen, English mathematician
1785 - Death of Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician
1840 - Birth of Ernst Abbe, German physicist
1857 - Birth of Andrija MohoroviÄiÄ, Croatian seismologist
1862 - Birth of David Hilbert, German mathematician
1872 - Birth of Paul Langevin, French physicist
1876 - Birth of Otto Diels, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1907 - Birth of Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1918 - Birth of Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1929 - Birth of John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, and Nobel Prize laureate
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Can everyone see Ä and Ä?
I can.
Hey why blame science for this one? The Doomsday machine hadn't been invented yet.
Who is blaming science?