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Events on 30 January

Events

• SeaMonkey web browser released [2006]
• First PC virus code developed [1982]

Birthdays

• Robert Hartill [1969]
  One of the developers of IMDb and Apache web server
• Fred Hembeck [1953]
  American cartoonist
• Isamu Akasaki [1929]
  Nobel laureate known for his role in the invention of blue LED
• Douglas Engelbart [1925]
  Computer pioneer and inventor of the computer mouse
• Emilio Segrè [1905]
  Co-discoverer of the anti-proton, technetium and astatine

Death Anniversaries

• Seth Fisher [2006]
  American comic books artist
• Gerald Durrell [1995]
  British naturalist, TV presenter, zookeeper and author
• John Bardeen [1991]
  Two-time Nobel laureate in Physics for invention of transistor and the BCS theory of superconductivity
• Ferdinand Porsche [1951]
  Founder of Porsche and creator of the gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle
• Orville Wright [1948]
  Aviation pioneer and brother of Wilbur Wright