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31 Jan 1599
lunar eclipse |
lunar eclipse (astronomy) During an observation of the lunar eclipse, Tycho Brahe discovers that his predictive theory about the movement of the Moon is wrong since the eclipse started 24 minutes before his calculations predicted: he improves on his theory. |
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31 Jan 1729
Pehr Löfling |
birth Pehr Löfling Pehr Löfling, Swedish Linnaean botanist (died 1756) |
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31 Jan 1729
Jakob Roggeveen |
death Jakob Roggeveen Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (born 1659) |
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31 Jan 1747
venereal diseases |
venereal diseases (medicine) The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. |
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31 Jan 1858
I. K. Brunel |
I. K. Brunel (technology) I. K. Brunel's SS Great Eastern, the largest ship built to date, is launched on the River Thames using Tangye hydraulic rams. |
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31 Jan 1862
Alvan Graham Clark |
Alvan Graham Clark (astronomy) Alvan Graham Clark makes the first observation of Sirius B, a white dwarf star, through an eighteen inch telescope at Northwestern University. |
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31 Jan 1863
Jules Verne |
Jules Verne (publications) The first of Jules Verne's scientifically inspired Voyages Extraordinaires, the novel Cinq semaines en ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon), is published in Paris. |
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31 Jan 1881
Irving Langmuir |
birth Irving Langmuir Irving Langmuir (died 1957), American chemist. |
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31 Jan 1913
Murray Bowen |
birth Murray Bowen Murray Bowen (died 1990), American psychiatrist and pioneer of family therapy. |
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31 Jan 1918
Ivan Pulyui |
death Ivan Pulyui Ivan Pulyui (born 1845), physicist. |
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31 Jan 1929
Rudolf Mössbauer |
birth Rudolf Mössbauer Rudolf Mössbauer (died 2011), German winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. |
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31 Jan 1938
James Crichton-Browne |
death James Crichton-Browne Sir James Crichton-Browne, Scottish psychiatrist (b. 1840) |
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31 Jan 1958
satellite |
satellite (astronomy and space ) The first successful American satellite, Explorer I, is launched into orbit. |
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31 Jan 1961
Ham |
Ham (astronomy and space ) Ham, a 37-pound male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space in a test of the Project Mercury capsule designed to carry U.S. astronauts into space. |
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31 Jan 1971
Apollo program |
Apollo program (astronomy and space ) Apollo program: Astronauts aboard Apollo 14 lift off for a mission to the moon. |
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31 Jan 1972
Immunosuppressive |
Immunosuppressive (medicine) Immunosuppressive effect of ciclosporin discovered by a team at Sandoz, Basel, under Hartmann F. Stähelin. |
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31 Jan 1980
Dan Milisavljevic |
birth Dan Milisavljevic Dan Milisavljevic, Canadian astronomer. |
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31 Jan 1997
Piyush Malhotra |
birth Piyush Malhotra Piyush Malhotra, cosmologist. |
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31 Jan 2000
English |
English (medicine) English doctor Harold Shipman is found guilty of killing fifteen of his elderly patients by lethal injections of diamorphine, the only British physician ever convicted of murdering his patients; he is actually considered to have killed at least 215. |