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Today is the 204th anniversary of the birth of Christian Doppler, a man who gave science one of its most enduring principles based on sound reasoning.

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The inventor of celluloid, John Wesley Hyatt, was born on this day in 1837.

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Konosuke Matsushita, the man who gave the world the Panasonic and Technics brands, was born on this day in 1894.

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The father of cool and inventor of the modern air conditioner Willis Carrier, was born on this day in 1876. Hmmm, I wonder if his nickname was "Chilly Willi"?

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The father of the automobile, Karl Benz, was born on this day in 1844.

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On this day in 1969 Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the moon, ended successfully with a landing in the Pacific Ocean.

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Today is the birthday of nano-technologist David Britz.

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Astronaut Guion Bluford was born on this day in 1942.

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The first person to observe and detail the process of digestion in humans, Dr. William Beaumont, was born on this day in 1785.

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Astronomer Edwin Hubble, who expanded our knowledge of the universe by showing us that the universe was expanding, was born 118 years ago today.

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Today is the birthday of Nobel laureate Yuan T. Lee.

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French inventor and photographer Louis Daguerre was born on this day in 1787.

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Soichiro Honda was born 101 years ago today.

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Today is the birthday of reknowned chemist James W. Mitchell.

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Sara Josephine Baker was a pioneer in child welfare and public health. Through her methods infant deaths in New York City dropped by over 1200 cases in a single year. Among her other accomplishments were the establishment of publicly funded milk clinics, the licensing of midwives and the education of mothers in the use of silver nitrate to prevent blindness in their newborn children. She was born on this day in 1873.

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Robert Fulton, the inventor, engineer and artist who brought steamboating from the experimental stage to commercial success, was born on this day in 1765.

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Today is the birthday of co-founder and CEO of Sun Microsystems Scott McNealy .

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On this day in 1984 astronauts from the space shuttle Discovery executed the first successful retrieval of a satellite in orbit for return to Earth for repair and relaunch.

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Gemini 12 was launched 41 years ago today.

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Today is the 37th anniversary of the launch of the Lunokhod 1 moon probe.

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Mathematician and astronomer Benjamin Banneker was born November 9, 1731.

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On this day in 1922, Christaan Barnard, the first doctor to perform a human heart transplant, was born.

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Double Nobel laureate Marie Curie was born on this day in 1867.

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Today is the 193rd anniversary of the birth of Adolph Sax, the inventor of the saxophone.

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On this day in 1824, the Rensselaer School was founded in Troy, N.Y., by Stephen van Renssalaer; becoming the first engineering college in the U.S. It opened on 3 Jan 1825, with "the purpose of instructing persons, who may choose to apply themselves, in the application of science to the common purposes of life." The school is now known by the name of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Benjamin Franklin Goodrich, an industrialist in the rubber industry, was born on this day in 1841.

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Listerine was trademark registered on this day in 1903.

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The Spruce Goose flew for the first and last time 60 years ago today.

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Today is the birthday of NASA chief administrator Michael Griffin.