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Science on the 8th of January in history

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Date	Type	Text
08 Jan 1587 Johannes Fabricius	science	birth Johannes Fabricius Johannes Fabricius, Frisian astronomer (died 1616)	0
08 Jan 1642 Galileo Galilei	science	death Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer (born 1564)	0
08 Jan 1703 André Levret	science	birth André Levret André Levret, French obstetrician (died 1780)	0
08 Jan 1779 Bryan Higgins	science	Bryan Higgins (technology) Bryan Higgins is granted a British patent for hydraulic cement (stucco) for use as an exterior plaster.	0
08 Jan 1823 Alfred Russel Wallace	science	birth Alfred Russel Wallace Alfred Russel Wallace (died 1913), British naturalist who devises the theory of natural selection at the same time as Charles Darwin.	0
08 Jan 1824 Michael Faraday	science	Michael Faraday (institutions) After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society with only one vote against him.	0
08 Jan 1834 Jacques Labillardière	science	death Jacques Labillardière Jacques Labillardière (born 1755), French naturalist.	0
08 Jan 1842 Delft University of Technology	science	Delft University of Technology (technology) Delft University of Technology established by William II of the Netherlands as a 'Royal Academy for the education of civilian engineers'.	0
08 Jan 1859 Fanny Bullock Workman	science	birth Fanny Bullock Workman Fanny Bullock Workman (died 1925), American mountaineer, explorer and cartographer.	0
08 Jan 1889 Herman Hollerith	science	Herman Hollerith (technology) Herman Hollerith receives a patent in the United States for his electric tabulating machine.	0
08 Jan 1935 A.C. Hardy	science	A.C. Hardy (physics) A.C. Hardy patents the spectrophotometer.	0
08 Jan 1940 history of computing hardware	science	history of computing hardware (computer science) In the history of computing hardware, Bell Labs' Complex Number Calculator, a relay-based calculator for complex numbers, is completed under the direction of George Stibitz.	0
08 Jan 1942 Stephen Hawking	science	birth Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking, English physicist and best-selling author of A Brief History of Time	0
08 Jan 1955 Penumbral lunar eclipse	science	Penumbral lunar eclipse (astronomy) Penumbral lunar eclipse.	0
08 Jan 1980 John Mauchly	science	death John Mauchly John Mauchly (b. 1907), American co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.	0
08 Jan 1997 Melvin Calvin	science	death Melvin Calvin Melvin Calvin (b. 1911), chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.	0
08 Jan 2001 endangered species	science	endangered species (biology) The first animal from an endangered species produced by cloning, a gaur named Noah, is born at Trans Ova Genetics in Sioux Center, Iowa. He dies within 48 hours of a common dysentery.	0
08 Jan 2002 Alexander Prokhorov	science	death Alexander Prokhorov Alexander Prokhorov (b. 1916), physicist.	0

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