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26 Jan 1531
Lisbon |
Lisbon (earth sciences) Lisbon, Portugal, is hit by an earthquake. |
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26 Jan 1574
Martin Helwig |
death Martin Helwig Martin Helwig, Silesian cartographer (born 1516) |
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26 Jan 1697
Georg Mohr |
death Georg Mohr Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (born 1640) |
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26 Jan 1823
Edward Jenner |
death Edward Jenner Edward Jenner (born 1749), English inventor of the vaccine. |
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26 Jan 1831
Anton de Bary |
birth Anton de Bary Anton de Bary (died 1888), surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist. |
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26 Jan 1884
Edward Sapir |
birth Edward Sapir Edward Sapir (died 1939), Pomeranian-born anthropological linguist. |
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26 Jan 1885
Harry Ricardo |
birth Harry Ricardo Harry Ricardo (died 1974), English mechanical engineer |
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26 Jan 1895
Arthur Cayley |
death Arthur Cayley Arthur Cayley (born 1821), English mathematician. |
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26 Jan 1904
Ancel Keys |
birth Ancel Keys Ancel Keys, (died 2004) American nutritionist. |
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26 Jan 1911
Polykarp Kusch |
birth Polykarp Kusch Polykarp Kusch (died 1993), German-born winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
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26 Jan 1918
Ewald Hering |
death Ewald Hering Ewald Hering (born 1834), physiologist. |
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26 Jan 1943
Nikolai Vavilov |
death Nikolai Vavilov Nikolai Vavilov (born 1887), Russian plant pathologist (in prison). |
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26 Jan 1962
Ranger 3 |
Ranger 3 (astronomy and space ) Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the Moon by 22,000 miles. |
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26 Jan 1990
Lewis Mumford |
death Lewis Mumford Lewis Mumford (b. 1895), American historian and philosopher of science. |
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26 Jan 2005
ESA |
ESA (space exploration) ESA's SMART-1 begins sending back close range pictures of the lunar surface |
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26 Jan 2005
NIH |
NIH (appointments) The NIH announce that Elizabeth Nabel will succeed Claude Lenfant as director of the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. |
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