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January 1, 1801 Working at the observatory in Palermo, Giuseppe Piazzi discovers Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt. But just a few weeks later, Ceres seems to disappear from the night sky. A few months later Carl Friedrich Gauß will astound astronomers by accurately predicting the orbit of the newly discovered body based on a few of Piazzi's observations.
January 1, 1803 Count Guglielmo Libri is born in Florence.
January 1, 1977 Robert Pollock Gillespie dies in Edzell, Angus.
January 1, 2000 comes and goes without any complications from software being unable to roll over the date into the new millennium.

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