01-08-2005, 12:01 PM
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January 8th
1324 ~ Death of Marco Polo Italian explorer.
1642 ~ Death of Galileo Galilei, Tuscan astronomer, father of the scientific method.
1735 ~ Birthday of John Carroll, first Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S.
1746 ~ Bonnie Prince Charlie occupied Stirling.
1889 ~ Herman Hollerith received a patent for his electric tabulating machine.
1925 ~ Birthday of Gerald Durrell, British naturalist and writer.
1926 ~ Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud became the King of Saudi Arabia.
1942 ~ Birthday of Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist.
1958 ~ 14 year old Bobby Fischer won the U.S. Chess Championship.
1999 ~ Cosmologists announced that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing.
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