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January 24

Graeco-RomanScience
  1. 76 CEGraeco-Roman · born

    Hadrian, the philhellene emperor who championed Greek culture and endowed schools of learning such as Rome's Athenaeum, was born.

  2. 1986 CEScience

    NASA's Voyager 2 made the first and only close flyby of Uranus, discovering new moons and rings and returning the first detailed views of the planet and its satellites.

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