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Subject: [Q-R] Jan. 19 HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:43:30 EST

January 19
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1736 - James Watt
inventor: condensing steam engine; the watt, a unit of power, was named
after him; died Aug 19, 1819
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1807 - Robert E. (Edward) Lee
Civil War: Confederate General surrendered to the North’s General Ulysses
S. Grant; died Oct 12, 1870
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1809 - Edgar Allan Poe
poet: The Raven; author of suspense tales: The Murders in the Rue Morgue,
The Fall of the House of Usher; died Oct 7, 1849

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