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19 Jan 1736
James Watt |
birth James Watt James Watt, Scottish mechanical engineer (died 1819) |
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19 Jan 1747
Johann Elert Bode |
birth Johann Elert Bode Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (died 1826) |
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19 Jan 1761
Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet |
birth Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (died 1807), French naturalist et physician. |
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19 Jan 1785
Richard Crosbie |
Richard Crosbie (aviation) Richard Crosbie successfully flies in a hot air balloon across Dublin, the first ascent in Ireland. |
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19 Jan 1813
Henry Bessemer |
birth Henry Bessemer Henry Bessemer, English inventor (died 1898) |
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19 Jan 1837
William Williams Keen |
birth William Williams Keen William Williams Keen (died 1932), physician. |
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19 Jan 1840
Charles Wilkes |
Charles Wilkes (exploration) Captain Charles Wilkes' United States Exploring Expedition sights Wilkes Land, providing evidence that Antarctica is a complete continent. |
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19 Jan 1851
Jacobus Kapteyn |
birth Jacobus Kapteyn Jacobus Kapteyn (died 1922), astronomer. |
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19 Jan 1878
Henri Victor Regnault |
death Henri Victor Regnault Henri Victor Regnault, French physical chemist (born 1810) |
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19 Jan 1888
Anton de Bary |
death Anton de Bary Anton de Bary (born 1831), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist and mycologist. |
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19 Jan 1915
Georges Claude |
Georges Claude (technology) Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising. |
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19 Jan 1917
Graham Higman |
birth Graham Higman Graham Higman (died 2008), English mathematician. |
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19 Jan 1927
Carl Gräbe |
death Carl Gräbe Carl Gräbe (born 1841), German chemist. |
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19 Jan 1930
Frank P. Ramsey |
death Frank P. Ramsey Frank P. Ramsey (born 1903), English mathematician (jaundice). |
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19 Jan 1967
Casimir Funk |
death Casimir Funk Casimir Funk (born 1884), Polish biochemist, coined the term vitamin. |
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19 Jan 1976
Hidetsugu Yagi |
death Hidetsugu Yagi Hidetsugu Yagi (b. 1886), Japanese electrical engineer |
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19 Jan 1986
MS-DOS |
MS-DOS (computer science) The first MS-DOS-based personal computer virus, Brain, starts to spread. |
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19 Jan 2000
G. Ledyard Stebbins |
death G. Ledyard Stebbins G. Ledyard Stebbins (b. 1906), American botanist and geneticist. |
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19 Jan 2004
Hubble Space Telescope |
Hubble Space Telescope (astronomy) The Hubble Space Telescope Program receives notification of the cancellation of all further HST on-orbit servicing. |
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19 Jan 2006
Hobart |
Hobart (environment) Australian researchers at the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research centre in Hobart, Tasmania, publish experimental data that matches models of increasing sea level rising. |
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19 Jan 2006
NASA |
NASA (space exploration) The NASA spacecraft New Horizons launches successfully from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and leaves Earth's orbit shortly afterwards on its journey to Pluto |
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