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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.