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John McCarthy (84) passed away 15 years ago today. He pioneered computer science history as the founding father of Artificial Intelligence who created the Lisp programming language.
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China successfully launched Chang'e-1, its maiden lunar orbiting space probe, 19 years ago today.
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A camera onboard a V-2 No. 13 rocket captured the first historic photograph of Earth from outer space, 80 years ago today.
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born 394 years ago today. He advanced the field of biology as the "Father of Microbiology," engineering advanced single-lens microscopes to discover protozoa and bacteria.
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Tycho Brahe (54) passed away 425 years ago today. He was one of the most celebrated pre-telescopic astronomer of the Renaissance.
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A new species of cat (the tilcayo tiger cat) has been discovered after a Bolivian man brought it to a local sanctuary mistaking it for a domestic kitten. This marks the first time over a 100 years , a new species of cat is found.
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Katherine Johnson was born 108 years ago today. (1918-2020)
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, the father of microbiology, passed away 303 years ago today. (1632-1723)
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The Lunar Orbiter 1 captured the first photo of Earth from the Moon, 60 years ago today
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Today is World Breast Cancer Research Day!
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Albert Ballin was born 169 years ago today. (1857-1918) He was a German shipping tycoon and the inventor of the modern cruise ship.
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Leslie Comrie was born 133 years ago today. (1893-1950) He was an astronomer and pioneer in mechanical computing.
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Louis de Broglie was born 134 years ago today. (1892-1987) He is a Nobel Prize in Physics laureate credited with discovering the wave nature of electrons.
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Hugo Theorell passed away 44 years ago today to natural causes. (1903-1982) He won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his pioneering research on oxidation enzymes.
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Today is International Geocaching Day!
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Hans Christian 脴rsted was born 249 years ago today. (1777-1851) He is credited with discovering electromagnetism.
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Fr茅d茅ric Joliot-Curie passed away 68 years ago today due to liver disease. (1900-1958) He was a Nobel Prize winning nuclear physicist and the son-in-law of Marie and Pierre Curie.
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