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Renowned mathematician Vaughan F. R. Jones celebrates his 55th birthday today.

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The first subway line in Japan, the Ginza Line, opened in Tokyo on this day in 1927.

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Charles Goodyear, who discovered the vulcanization process for rubber, was born 207 years ago today.

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Louis Pasteur, the world's first microbiologist, was born on this day in 1822.

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The pioneer of mechanical computing, Charles Babbage, was born on this day in 1791.

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Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, was born on this day in 1821.

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On this day in 1947, the first transistor was demonstrated at Bell Labs.

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Camile Guerin, co-developer of a vaccine for tuberculosis, was born on this day in 1872.

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On this day in 1968 Apollo 8, the first mission to the moon, was launched.

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Industrialist Harvey Firestone was born on this day in 1868.

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Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and command a shuttle mission was born on this day in 1956.

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The man who laid the foundation for modern radio, Edwin Armstrong, was born on this day in 1890.

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Scientist and mathematician Emile du Chatelet was born on this day in 1706.

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Groundbreaking anthropologist Margaret Mead was born on this day in 1901.

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Civil engineer Gustav Eiffel was born on this day in 1832.

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Pioneering astronomer Tycho Brahe was born on this day in 1546.

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Industrialist and inventor Ernst Werner Von Siemens was born on this day 191 years ago.

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Robert Noyce, coinventor of the integrated circuit and one of the cofounders of Intel was born on this day in 1927.

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On this day in 1972, Apollo 17 landed on the moon.

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The founder of scientific programming, Ada Byron, the Countess of Lovelace; was born on this day in 1815.

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Computer pioneer Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was born on this day in 1906.

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Today is the 80th birthday of cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov.

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On December 7, 1995, the Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter and deployed its atmospheric probe. During its 60 minute descent, the probe sent back data about the composition and structure of the Jovian atmosphere that gave humanity more information about the environment of Jupiter than had been learned in the past 60 centuries.

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Nobel laureate George Porter was born on this day in 1920.

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No uncertainty here, Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg was definitely born on this day in 1901.

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Are your ears warm on this cold December day? If the answer is yes, then thank Chester Greenwood the inventor of earmuffs who was born 149 years ago today.

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Today marks the anniversary of the birth of an industrialist who certainly made a lot of dough, Charles Pillsbury.

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The first artificial, self-sustaining, nuclear reaction occurred on this day in 1942 at the University of Chicago.

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On this day in 1990, workers digging the Chunnel broke through and met at the midpoint 132 feet below the English Channel.

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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.