January 2011

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Autism Awareness Month

January is also the month of:

•  Autism Awareness Month  • Birth Defects Prevention  • 

•  Cervical Cancer Awareness  •  Cataract Awareness  • 

•  Folic Acid Awareness  •  Glaucoma Awareness  • 

•  Healthy Weight Awareness  •  International Creativity Month   •

•  Thyroid Awareness  •   Volunteer Blood Donor Month •

1

New Years Day

Asteroid Ceres discovered (1801)

National Environmental Policy Act Established (1970)

2

National Science Fiction Day

Luna 1 Launched  (1959)

National Blood Donor Month

3

King Tut's sarcophagus uncovered (1924)

Spirit Robotic Rover Lands on Mars  (2004)

Quadrantids Meteor Shower overnight

4

Earth at Perihelion

Sir Isaac Newton's born (1643)

Sputnik 1 returns to Earth (1958)

5

National Bird Day

FM Radio Birthday (1940)

Dwarf planet Eris discovered (2005)

George Washington Carver died (1943)

6

Morse deonstrates telegraph, 1838

Gregor Johann Mendel died (1884)

7

Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

Nikola Tesla died (1943)

8

Stephen . Hawking was born (1942)

Galieo Galilei died (1642)

9

Alec Jeffres born (1950)

Caroline Lucretia Herschel died (1848)

Birth Defects Prevention Month

10

Robert Woodrow Wilson born (1936)

Carolus Linnaeus died (1770)

11

Insulin used to treat diabetes for the first time (1922)

Roger Guillemin born (1924)

Theodor Schwann died (1882)

12

Great Pyramid mystery (1984)

Paul Hermann Muller born (1899)

Charles Brenton Huggins died (1997)

13

Sidney Brenner born (1927)

Paul Niggli died (1953)

14

Huygens probe lands on Titan (2005)

Albert Schweitzer born (1875)

Edmond Halley died (1742)

15

Soviets perform first docking in space (1969)

Edward Teller born (1908)

Kenneth Vivian Thimann died (1997)

16

Wilson Bentley's First Snowflake Photograph(1885)

Dian Fossey born (1932)

 
Healthy Weight Week

17

Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday (Observed)

Benjamin Franklin born (1706)

Clyde William Tombaugh died (1997)

18

Scott reaches the South Pole (1912)

Herman Snellen died (1908)

19

New Horizons mission to Pluto launched (2006)

Johann Elert Bode born (1826)

20

Penguin Awareness Day

Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr. born (1930)

Zénobe-Théophile Gramme died (1901)

21

Squirrel Appreciation Day

Camillo Golgi died (1926)

22

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach died (1840)

23

First Female American to Receive an MD Degree (1849)

Johann Wilhelm Ritter died (1810)

National Nuclear Science Week

24

Voyager 2 Uranus flyby (1986)

Total Solar Eclipse first filmed (1925)

25

First Heart Transplant (1974)

Robert Boyle born (1627)

26

Rocky Mountain National Park (1915)

Edward Jenner died (1828)

27

Apollo 1 Fire (1967)

National Geographic Society chartered (1888)

28

Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion (1986)

29

National Puzzle Day

First automobile patent applied for (1886)

30

Max Theiler born (1899)

Ernst Heinrich Heinkel died (1958)