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On this day in 1931, the Empire State Building was officially completed.

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On this day in 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and five companions began a journey on the Kon-Tiki raft that lasted for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean and ended with landfall on a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947.

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Wallace Hume Carothers the inventor of nylon was born on this day in 1896.

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Ornithologist John James Audubon was born on this day in 1785.

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On this day in 1961 Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel, was granted a patent for an integrated circuit.

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In 1061, the arrival of Halley's comet caused a monk to predict the destruction of England. Five years later the Normans successfully invaded England, but did not destroy it.

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Physicist and Nobel laureat Max Plank was born on this day in 1858.

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In 1970, on this day, the first nationwide Earth Day was celebrated.

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Naturalist, farmer, explorer, writer and conservationist John Muir was born on this day in 1838. He was one of the key advocates that convinced Teddy Roosevelt to create our national park system.

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On this day in 1897 Simon Lake was granted a patent for an even keel submarine.

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Salyut 1 was the first DOS long duration orbital station was launched 37 years ago today.

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George Hitchings, who won the Nobel prize in 1988 for his work on chemotherapy, was born 103 years ago today.

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Giovanni Riccioli, the first astronmer to observe a double star, was born 510 years ago today.

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On this day in 1921, biochemist Marie Maynard Daly was born.

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On this day in 1707, reknowned mathematician Leonhard Euler was born.

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On this day on 1629 Christiaan Huygens, mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, who founded the wave theory of light and discovered the true shape of the rings of Saturn, was born.

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Today is the 265th anniversary of the birth of a man who was throughout his lifetime an extraordinarily learned individual; including interests in mathematics and natural sciences, Thomas Jefferson. He also dabbled in politics.

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On this day in 1961, Yuri Gagarin made history with his, 108-minute, 181 x 327-km single-orbit flight around the world. And mankind took its first steps into the final frontier.

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Prolific chemist, Percy L. Julian was born on this day in 1899.

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Nobel laureate Bernardo Alberto Houssay was born on this day in 1887.

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On this day in 1919, computer pioneer J. Presper Eckert was born.

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The man who gave the world legos, Ole Kirk Chistiansen, was born on this day in 1891.

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Donald Douglas, founder of McDonald Douglas, was born on this day in 1892.

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On this day in 1858 Atlee Burpee, a seedsman who founded the world's largest mail-order seed company, was born.

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Linus Yale, an inventor and manufacturer of locks, including the cylinder or pin tumbler lock known by his name, was born on this day in 1821.

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Industrialist and inventor Walter Chrysler was born on this day in 1875.

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On this day in 1976, Apple Computer was established. No foolin'.