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05 Jan 1587
Xu Xiake |
birth Xu Xiake Xu Xiake, Chinese explorer and geographer (died 1641) |
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05 Jan 1665
France |
France (publications) The Journal des sçavans begins publication in France, the first scientific journal. |
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05 Jan 1779
Zebulon Pike |
birth Zebulon Pike General Zebulon Pike, American explorer (died 1813) |
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05 Jan 1786
Thomas Nuttall |
birth Thomas Nuttall Thomas Nuttall, English naturalist (died 1859) |
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05 Jan 1838
Camille Jordan |
birth Camille Jordan Camille Jordan (died 1922), mathematician. |
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05 Jan 1850
Sidney Browne |
birth Sidney Browne Sidney Browne (died 1941), military nurse. |
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05 Jan 1855
King Camp Gillette |
birth King Camp Gillette King Camp Gillette (died 1932), inventor. |
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05 Jan 1876
Lucien Bull |
birth Lucien Bull Lucien Bull (died 1972), pioneer in chronophotography. |
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05 Jan 1909
Stephen Cole Kleene |
birth Stephen Cole Kleene Stephen Cole Kleene (died 1994), American mathematician. |
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05 Jan 1922
Ernest Shackleton |
death Ernest Shackleton Ernest Shackleton (born 1874), explorer. |
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05 Jan 1932
pathology |
pathology (medicine) The pathology of Cushing's syndrome is first described by Harvey Cushing. |
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05 Jan 1940
FM radio |
FM radio (physics) FM radio demonstrated to the FCC for the first time. |
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05 Jan 1943
George Washington Carver |
death George Washington Carver George Washington Carver (born c.1864), African American agricultural botanist. |
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05 Jan 1970
Max Born |
death Max Born Max Born (b. 1882), physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1954. |
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05 Jan 1972
President of the United States |
President of the United States (astronomy and space ) President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program. |
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05 Jan 1981
Harold Urey |
death Harold Urey Harold Urey (b. 1893), American winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. |
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05 Jan 1992
Asteroid |
Asteroid (astronomy) Asteroid 5751 Zao is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa. |