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03 Jan 1543
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo |
death Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (born c. 1499), Portuguese explorer. |
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03 Jan 1641
Jeremiah Horrocks |
death Jeremiah Horrocks Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer (born 1618) |
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03 Jan 1861
Arnold Adolph Berthold |
death Arnold Adolph Berthold Arnold Adolph Berthold (born 1803), German physiologist. |
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03 Jan 1888
refracting telescope |
refracting telescope (astronomy) The 91 cm refracting telescope at Lick Observatory is first used. The James Lick telescope is the largest refractor in the world at this time, and the observatory is the first established at the top of a mountain. |
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03 Jan 1896
Jay Laurence Lush |
birth Jay Laurence Lush Jay Laurence Lush (died 1982), American livestock geneticist. |
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03 Jan 1908
Charles Augustus Young |
death Charles Augustus Young Charles Augustus Young (born 1834), astronomer. |
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03 Jan 1911
1911 Kebin earthquake |
1911 Kebin earthquake (earth sciences) 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan. |
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03 Jan 1920
Zygmunt Janiszewski |
death Zygmunt Janiszewski Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician (born 1888). |
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03 Jan 1929
Gordon Moore |
birth Gordon Moore Gordon Moore, American computing entrepreneur and scientific benefactor. |
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03 Jan 1931
Albert Einstein |
Albert Einstein (other s) Albert Einstein begins doing research at the California Institute of Technology, along with astronomer Edwin Hubble. In October the Caltech Department of Physics faculty and graduate students meet with Einstein as a guest. |
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03 Jan 1967
Reginald Punnett |
death Reginald Punnett Reginald Punnett (born 1875), English geneticist. |
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03 Jan 1980
Joy Adamson |
death Joy Adamson Joy Adamson (b. 1910), Silesian-born Kenyan wildlife conservationist (murdered). |
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