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10 Jan 1573
Simon Marius |
birth Simon Marius Simon Marius, German astronomer who names the Galilean moons of Jupiter (died 1624). |
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10 Jan 1709
Industrial Revolution |
Industrial Revolution (technology) Industrial Revolution: Abraham Darby I successfully produces cast iron using coke fuel at his Coalbrookdale blast furnace in Shropshire, England. |
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10 Jan 1778
Carolus Linnaeus |
death Carolus Linnaeus Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, first to develop standard nomenclature for naming species (born 1707) |
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10 Jan 1833
Adrien-Marie Legendre |
death Adrien-Marie Legendre Adrien-Marie Legendre (born 1752), mathematician. |
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10 Jan 1838
John Gould |
John Gould (biology) John Gould reports to the Zoological Society of London that bird specimens brought by Charles Darwin from the Galápagos Islands which Darwin had thought were blackbirds, "gross-bills" and finches are in fact "a series of ground Finches which are so peculiar" as to form "an entirely new group, containing 12 species", an important step in the inception of Darwin's theory. |
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10 Jan 1862
Samuel Colt |
death Samuel Colt Samuel Colt (born 1814), American inventor |
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10 Jan 1906
Grigore Moisil |
birth Grigore Moisil Grigore Moisil (died 1973), mathematician. |
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10 Jan 1916
Sune K. Bergström |
birth Sune K. Bergström Sune K. Bergström (died 2004), Swedish biochemist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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10 Jan 1936
Robert Wilson |
birth Robert Wilson Robert Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer. |
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10 Jan 1946
United States Army Signal Corps |
United States Army Signal Corps (astronomy) The United States Army Signal Corps' Project Diana bounces radar waves off the Moon. |
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10 Jan 1954
Caspian Tiger |
Caspian Tiger (biology) Last confirmed specimen of a Caspian Tiger is killed, in the valley of the Sumbar River in the Kopet Dag Mountains of Turkmenistan. |
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