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21 Jan 1527
Juan de Grijalva |
death Juan de Grijalva Juan de Grijalva, Spanish explorer (born c. 1489) |
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21 Jan 1643
Abel Tasman |
Abel Tasman (exploration) Abel Tasman discovers the Tonga archipelago. |
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21 Jan 1677
smallpox |
smallpox (medicine) A pamphlet on smallpox published in Boston becomes the first medical publication in the British colonies in North America. |
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21 Jan 1714
Anna Morandi |
birth Anna Morandi Anna Morandi, Bolognese anatomist (died 1774) |
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21 Jan 1812
James |
James (medicine) John Parkinson and his father James first describe appendicitis and resultant peritonitis in English. |
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21 Jan 1840
Adélie Land |
Adélie Land (exploration) Adélie Land first visited by Jules Dumont d'Urville in the French ship Astrolabe. |
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21 Jan 1847
Joseph Le Bel |
birth Joseph Le Bel Joseph Le Bel, French stereochemist (died 1930) |
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21 Jan 1855
John Moses Browning |
birth John Moses Browning John Moses Browning (died 1926), inventor. |
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21 Jan 1892
John Couch Adams |
death John Couch Adams John Couch Adams (born 1819), mathematician. |
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21 Jan 1901
Elisha Gray |
death Elisha Gray Elisha Gray (born 1835), American electrical engineer. |
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21 Jan 1912
Konrad Emil Bloch |
birth Konrad Emil Bloch Konrad Emil Bloch (died 2000), German-born biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
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21 Jan 1976
Concorde |
Concorde (aviation) Concorde begins commercial flights. |
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