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Today is the anniversary of the birth of blacksmith turned American agricultural equipment inventor and pioneer manufacturer, John Deere.

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Today is the anniversary of the birth of physicist and space visionary Gerard O'Neill.

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On this day in 1971, the Apollo 14 lunar module successfully landed on the moon and mankind began its third expedition on our nearest neighbor in space.

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The man who discovered Pluto, Clyde W. Tombaugh, was born on this day in 1906.

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Today is the anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive an MD degree from an American medical school. She was rejected by all the major medical schools in the nation because of her gender. However, her application to Geneva Medical School (now Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York) was referred to the student body. They accepted thinking it was a joke from a rival school. Working with grit and determination, she overcame the hostility of her fellow students, professors and townspeople and earned her medical degree in 1849.

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Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, the chemist who identified the biological nitrogen cycle, was born on this day in 1802.

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Nobel laureate and codiscoverer of the anti-proton Emilio Segrè was born on this day in 1905.