6 January
Joan of Arc
6 January 1412 (traditional date) - 30 May 1431
French heroine of the 15th century.
Giuseppe Sammartini
6 January 1695 – November 1750
Italian composer.
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
6 January 1745 – 2 August 1799
French balloonist who, with brother Joseph-Michael, made the first hot-air balloon manned flight.
Heinrich Schliemann
6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890
German archaeologist who discovered Troy.
Gustave Doré
6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883
French printmaker and engraver, e.g. ‘Inferno’ and ‘Ancient mariner’.
Rolf Zinkernagel
6 January 1944
Swiss academic who researched, with Peter Doherty, the immume system. Nobel laureates.
And finally …
6 January 1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.
6 January 1907 - The first Montessori school opened by Maria Montessori in Rome.
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Follow-Up …
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Joan of Arc
http://archive.joan-of-arc.org/joanofarc_short_biography.html
Joan of Arc Museum
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/musee.jeannedarc/indexanglais.htm
Giuseppe Sammartini
http://www.classiccat.net/sammartini_g/biography.htm
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
http://www.encarta.co.uk/encyclopedia_761555686/Montgolfier_Joseph_Michel_and_Jacques_%C3%89tienne.html
Heinrich Schliemann
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/pqrst/schliemann_heinrich.html
Gustave Doré
http://www.answers.com/topic/gustave-dor
Rolf Zinkernagel
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1996/zinkernagel-autobio.html
