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January 29

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  1. 1903 CEJewish · born

    Yeshayahu Leibowitz, scientist, Jewish thinker, and editor of the Encyclopaedia Hebraica, was born in Riga.

  2. 1926 CEIslamic · born

    The theoretical physicist Abdus Salam, later a Nobel laureate for the electroweak theory, was born in Punjab.

  3. 1886 CEScience

    Carl Benz filed patent DRP 37435 for a vehicle powered by a gas engine, the three-wheeled Benz Patent-Motorwagen widely regarded as the first practical automobile.

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