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James Watt (30 January 1736 – 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world.
Isamu Akasaki (born January 30, 1929) is a Japanese physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness GaN blue LED as well.
Leave a message after the tone. On January 30, we celebrate the US Day of Meaningless Answering Machine Messages. At least if it's according to the married couple Ruth and Thomas Roy, who declared this date Inane Answering Message Day.
Backward Day. The day where the world gets turned upside down and inside becomes out and madness becomes sanity and day becomes night, at least in concept.
Friends of the literary classics - books out on 1 February and join in. Because this date stands for Robinson Crusoe Day.
The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent and protégé of Lovecraft, to identify the settings, tropes, and lore that were employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors. The name Cthulhu derives from the central creature in Lovecraft's seminal short story, "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.
Today the time to change your beloved password has come. Go ahead and improve your account's security.
Since 2017, the 2nd of February has been all about unemployed fragrance trees. At least according to the listeners of the WDR radio station 1Live, who voted to declare this date the day of the unemployed fragrance tree.
The IT Crowd is a British sitcom originally broadcast by Channel 4, written by Graham Linehan, produced by Ash Atalla and starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry.
Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg ( c. 1400 – February 3, 1468) was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, inventor, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974) was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize: making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France.
Kenneth Lane Thompson (born February 4, 1943) is an American pioneer of computer science. Having worked at Bell Labs for most of his career, Thompson designed and implemented the original Unix operating system.
A space entirely devoid of all matter is a vacuum. On February 4 of every year, we are challenged to create one.
Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg 2004, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
Kirk Douglas was an American actor. In the 1950s and 1960s he was one of the leading Hollywood stars and often appeared in western and adventure movies.
World Nutella Day celebrates the sweetened hazelnut cocoa spread Nutella. The day was launched by the American blogger Sara Rosso on 5 February 2007. She wished for a day on which everyone could creatively celebrate their fondness for the sweet spread.
February 6 celebrates the subtleties of idiomatic expressions in the English language with US Lame Duck Day. But that's why this day of action is more about politism than about the duck pond.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
The American Love Your Robot Day takes place every year on February 7th.
Punkrock fans watch out and join in. If you haven't already done so, February 7th should definitely be on your calendar as International Clash Day. Since 2013 fans all over the world have been celebrating the musical legacy of Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon - better known as The Clash - with this date.
Miguel José Ferrer was an American actor and voice actor. His breakthrough role was in the 1987 film RoboCop.
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. Widely regarded as one of the greatest American composers of all time, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history in a career spanning over six decades.
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (8 February 1834 – 2 February 1907) was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered.