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HAL goes online (1992 Odyssey in space)
HAL 9000 is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. First appearing in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Rubber Ducky Day
Happy birthday rubber Ducky. In honor of the little yellow duck from the Sesame Streets we celebrate January 13th as the US-American Day of the Squeak Ducklet.
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Martin Luther King (*1929)
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
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Fresh Squeezed Juice Day
Healthy and tasty. 15 January is celebrated in the USA as the national day of freshly squeezed fruit juice.
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Wikipedia Day
January 15, 2019 is known worldwide as Wikipedia Day. On this day, the Wiki-based project went online in 2001 under the name "Wikipedia".
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The National Nothing Day
Since 1973 the 16th of January is celebrated in the USA the National Nothing Day or National Do Nothing Day.
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Benjamin Franklin (*1706)
Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, Freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, humorist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat.
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Adam Ries (*1492)
Adam Ries (January 17, 1492 – March 30, 1559) was a German mathematician. He is also known by the name Adam Riese.
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Al Capone (*1899, legendärer Verbrecher)
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.
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Ditch New Years Resolutions Day
Free yourselves from your guilty conscience. With the US-American throwing your New Year resolutions overboard day on January 17th, the New Year resolutions will be on their collar.
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Gourmet Coffee Day
In the USA, January 18 is celebrated as the national day of gourmet coffee. Therefore coffee fans - watch out and join in.
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Winnie the Pooh Day
January 18th honours one of the most popular children's book characters and her creator. We are talking about Alan Alexander Milne (1882 - 1956) and the bear Winnie the Pooh, the fans of the stories in all countries with today's Winnie the Pooh Day
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National Popcorn Day
With the US American Day of Popcorn, January 19 celebrates one of the most popular snacks ever. And since snacks and sweets seem to be an extremely popular topic, this day should of course not be missed.
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Edgar Allan Poe (*1809)
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and of American literature as a whole, and he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story.
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Miguel Ferrer (†2017)
Miguel José Ferrer was an American actor and voice actor. His breakthrough role was in the 1987 film RoboCop.
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Birthday of Buffy Summers (*1981 Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Buffy Summers' birthday was an event in January 19th, and she was born in 1981. Notably, since her arrival in Sunnydale, most of Buffy Summers’ birthday celebrations were followed by undesirable supernatural events.
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R.A. Salvatore (*1959)
Robert Anthony Salvatore (born January 20, 1959) is an American author best known for The DemonWars Saga, his Forgotten Realms novels, for which he created the popular character Drizzt Do'Urden, and Vector Prime, the first novel in the Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series.
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Buzz Aldrin (*1930, second man on the moon)
Buzz Aldrin (January 20, 1930) is an American engineer and a former astronaut and fighter pilot. As the Apollo Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two humans to land on the Moon.
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André-Marie Ampère (*1775)
André-Marie Ampère (20 January 1775 – 10 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics".
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First broadcast of Breaking Bad (2008)
Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show originally aired on AMC for five seasons, from January 20, 2008 to September 29, 2013.
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Paul Allen (*1953, co-founder of Microsoft)
Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American business magnate, investor, researcher, humanitarian, and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft alongside Bill Gates in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer revolution and later became the world's largest PC software company.
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Squirrel Appreciation Day
January 21 stands for the US-American day of honor of the squirrel.
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International Sweatpants Day
Specifically, the idea and initiative for this action day goes to the four Austrians, more precisely to Grazer, Alexander Painsi, Matthias Strohmeier, Matthias Geisriegler and Martin Riesel, whose school class came to school on 21 January 2009 at carnival completely in jogging trousers. The campaign was so well received that it was decided to make it a tradition.
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National Hugging Day
Give me a hug. January 21st is all about human warmth. At least according to the two Americans Kevin Zaborney and Adam Olis, who originally declared this date National Hugging Day in 1986.
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