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On this day in 1888, a patent was issued for the ballpoint pen to John Loud.

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On this day in 1991, the Galileo Jupiter spacecraft became the first man made object to execute a flyby of an asteroid.

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Dr. Jonas Salk, who invented the first effective vaccine against polio which saved untold millions of lives, was born on this day in 1914.

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On this day in 1992, Nintendo registered the design of its handheld game in America.

Déjà Vu All Over Again

I like to collect editorial cartoons. Here is one from the early 90's that should remind us that the volitility the stock market is experiencing today is nothing new. In fact, if you search carefully among the beaten down stocks that people have sold in a panic, you can find some discarded gems to buy that will have you laughing all the way to the bank in a few years. Good hunting! Good news!

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Cereal magnate C.W. Post was born on this day in 1854.

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On this day in 1921, reknowned immunologist Marian Koshland was born.

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Today marks the 4th anniversary of the last flight of the Concorde supersonic aircraft.

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On this day in 1908 Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, winner of the Nobel prize in physics for his work in investigating the Cerenkov effect, was born.

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The man who rid the world of scurvy by discovering vitamin C, Charles King, was born on this day in 1896.

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Chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel was born 174 years ago today.

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The Monterey Bay Aquarium opened 23 years ago today.

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Film inventor and pioneer Auguste Lumiere was born 145 years ago today.

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Space pioneer Dr. Mae Jamison, MD was born on this day in 1956.

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On this day in 1900, Frank Sprague was granted a patent for a multi-control for electric trains.

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On this day in 2003, the nation of China launched its first manned space mission.

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On this day in 1947, Chuck Yeager, a WW II fighter pilot, became the first human to break through the sound barrier in a rocket powered Bell XS-1 airplane over the desert near Victorville, California.

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On this day in 1865, Nobel laureate Arthur Hayden was born.

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On this day seven years ago STS-92, the one hundreth shuttle flight, took place.

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Benjamin Wright, the engineer who directed the construction of the Erie Canal, was born 237 years ago today.

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In 1855 on this day, the first U.S. patent was issued for a sewing machine motor to Isaac Singer.

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On this day in 1883, Nobel laureate Otto Warburg was born.

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Physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bhor was born on this day in 1885.

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Prolific inventor George Westinghouse was born on this day in 1846.

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The "Father Of American Rocketry", Dr. Robert Goddard, was born on this day in 1882.

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The space age began on this day in 1957 with the launch of Sputnik 1.

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On this day in 1985, the space shuttle Atlantis was launced on its maiden voyage.

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William Ramsay, who received the Nobel Prize for his research in inert gases, was born on this day in 1852.

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George R. Carruthers (above right) scientist and inventor of the "Image Converter for Detecting Electromagnetic Radiation Specially in Short Wave Lengths", was born on this day in 1939. His ultraviolet cameras have been used on numerous NASA missions to gather priceless information about the structure of the universe.