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Sunday, July 8, 2007

The builder of the first guidable airships, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, was born on this day in 1838.

Joseph-Marie Jacquard, who revolutionized the textile industry with this programmable looms, was born 255 years ago today.

Nobel laureate Hugo Theorell was born 104 years ago today.

On July 5, 1888, Nobel laureate Herbert Gasser was born.

On Independence Day in 1997, the Mars Pathfinder landed on the Red planet.

Pierre Berthier, the man who discovered bauxite(aluminum ore) was born on this day in 1782.

Today is the 133rd birthday of the Philadelphia Zoo.

The first zoo established in the U.S.