* Astronomy

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RE: January 23rd

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Bounty Day is a holiday on both Pitcairn Island, destination of the HMS Bounty mutineers, and on Norfolk Island.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47443856/bounty-day/

The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake occurred on the morning of 23 January 1556
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t40683982/the-1556-shaanxi-earthquake/

On January the 23 of 1973 at around 1 a.m. in the morning, a volcanic eruption of the mountain Eldfell began on Heimaey.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47443862/eldfell/

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The Marias Massacre took place in Montana during the late nineteenth century Indian Wars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marias_Massacre

Operation Hannibal was a German naval operation from mid-January to May, 1945
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52361643/operation-hannibal/

The Torpedo Alley, or Torpedo Junction, off North Carolina, is one of the graveyards of the Atlantic Ocean, named for the high number of attacks on Allied shipping by German U-boats in World War II. Almost 400 ships were sunk, mostly during the Second Happy Time in 1942, and over 5,000 people were killed, many of whom were civilians and merchant marines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_Alley

The Bathyscaphe Trieste reached a record maximum depth on 23 January 1960
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47443865/bathyscaphe-trieste/

The NASA Glenn Research Center was established in 1941.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Research_Center

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Comunication with Pioneer 10 has been lost since January 23, 2003
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t2816290/pioneer-10-and-11/

STS-89 was launched from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida on 23rd January 1998.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-89

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William Reid "Bill" Pogue (January 23, 1930 - March 3, 2014), (Col, USAF), was an American astronaut and test pilot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Pogue

Kjell Norwood Lindgren is a current NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjell_N._Lindgren

Jack David "2fish" Fischer (born 1974) is an American test pilot and a NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_D._Fischer

Robert Donald Cabana (born January 23, 1949) is the director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, a NASA astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_D._Cabana

Edward Carroll Stone (born January 23, 1936) is an American space scientist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_C._Stone

Hideki Yukawa (23 January 1907 - 8 September 1981), was a Japanese theoretical physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Yukawa

Nikolay Alekseevich Umov (January 23, 1846 - January 15, 1915) was a Russian physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_Umov

Ernst Karl Abbe (January 23, 1840 - January 14, 1905) was a German physicist
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47443846/ernst-karl-abbe-1840-1905/

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Moon is a 2009 British science fiction drama film directed by Duncan Jones.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52360903/moon-film/

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Brad Smith discovered Uranus Moon Bianca in 1986
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t40678749/bianca/

On 23 January 1930, Clyde Tombaugh photographed the Dwarf planet Pluto.
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/23_January/(print)

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NGC 2203 was discovered by John Herschel on the 23rd January 1836.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56413682/ngc-2203/

NGC 2223 was discovered by John Herschel on the 23rd January 1835.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56413710/ngc-2223/

NGC 2265 was discovered by John Herschel on the 23rd January 1832.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56413743/ngc-2265/

NGC 2271 was discovered by John Herschel on the 23rd January 1835.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56413763/ngc-2271/

NGC 2418 was discovered by Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan on the 23rd January 1874.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56413785/ngc-2418/

NGC 2865 was discovered by John Herschel on the 23rd January 1835.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56413804/ngc-2865/

NGC 3462 was discovered by William Herschel on the 23rd January 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t61166744/ngc-3462/

NGC 4610 was discovered William Herschel on the 23rd January 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56413833/ngc-4610/

NGC 4612 was discovered by William Herschel on the 23rd January 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56413851/ngc-4612/

NGC 4795 was discovered by William Herschel on the 23rd January 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56413868/ngc-4795/

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The optical afterglow of gamma-ray burst GRB-990123 was imaged on January 23, 1999.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56413494/grb-990123/

T Aurigae (Nova Aurigae 1891) was a nova discovered at magnitude 5.0 on January 23, 1892, by Thomas David Anderson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_Aurigae

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Meteorites

The Yatoor (H5) meteorite fell in Andhra Pradesh, India, on the 23rd January, 1852.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47443894/yatoor-meteorite/

The Nedagolla (Iron) meteorite fell in Andhra Pradesh, India, on the 23rd January, 1870.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47443889/nedagolla-meteorite/

The Cynthiana (L/LL4) meteorite fell in Kentucky, USA, on the 23rd January, 1877.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47443891/cynthiana-meteorite/

The Santa Lucia (L6) meteorite fell in San Juan, Argentina, on the 23rd January, 2008.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56412974/santa-lucia-meteorite/