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43 years ago #Today, Douglas Adams' The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was first published bit.ly/1TEAbkH
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#Today in 1924 (still less than 100 years ago), Edwin Hubble announced to the world the existence of other galaxies than the Milky Way bit.ly/2ikVc74
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Born 451 years ago #Today, Johannes Kepler was a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion which provided one of the foundations for Newton's theory of gravitation bit.ly/22Ujdnc [gif: ow.ly/g6dC30n741x]
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Born #Today in 1903, John Von Neumann is generally regarded as the foremost mathematician of his time and said to be "the last representative of the great mathematicians" bit.ly/1T30Urk
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Born 231 years ago #Today, Michael Faraday was the discoverer of the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. Although Faraday received little formal education, he was one of the most influential scientists in history buff.ly/2QSoFq3
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This is an excerpt from the original US Patent number 3005282 A, issued 61 years ago #Today, proposing a design for a "Toy building brick", from a company named LEGO. That brick became much more than a simple toy buff.ly/2W9C0gy
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75 years ago #Today, a moth was found in the Panel F of the Harvard Mark II calculator: the first computer bug [read more: buff.ly/3tre2xW]
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75 years ago #Today, Chuck Yeager became the first person to break the sound barrier flying the Bell X-1 rocket plane bit.ly/2d3rRgE
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Intel announced its 4004 processor #Today in 1971, the first commercially available microprocessor. It held 2300 transistors & delivered the same computing power as the first electronic computer built in 1946, which, in contrast, filled a room [read more: buff.ly/3tsw3wO]
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70 years ago #Today, a dense smog descended on London, England, that would last four days, causing at least 4,000 deaths and chaos for transportation as visibility was reduced to a few hundred yards bit.ly/2AVIVBW
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The true story of history's only known meteorite victim. Ann Hodges was hit by a meteorite in her Alabama home #Today in 1954 bit.ly/2AIY3CY
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119 years ago #Today, two Ohio brothers – Wilbur & Orville Wright – made the first bonafide, crewed, heavier-than-air flight bit.ly/2gVOyFh
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Born #Today in 1910, William Higinbotham was the physicist who invented the first video game, Tennis for Two in 1958, using a small analogue computer with ten operational amplifiers and output a side view of the flight of the tennis ball on an oscilloscope buff.ly/3BgnBSG
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53 years ago #Today, the nascent #ARPANET grew to four nodes when ARPA connected computer network nodes at four universities. This is the chart of all the Internet at the end of 1969 bit.ly/2iTcUn3
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95 years ago #Today, the Krakatoa volcano began a new eruption on the seafloor along the same line as the cones of previous activity. By 26 Jan 1928, a growing cone had reached sea level and formed a small island called Anak Krakatoa (Child of Krakatoa) bit.ly/2zL0CzA
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When does the line between day and night become vertical? #Today, September 23 at 01.03 UTC, there was an equinox on planet Earth [read more: bit.ly/3xPFGYT] [watching solstices and equinoxes from space: buff.ly/1Qe1hk7]
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One of the most poetic sights of the Apollo missions: a crescent Earth seen from the Apollo 15 command module during the trip back home, 51 years ago #Today bit.ly/2aGDtCC
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191 years ago #Today, the HMS Beagle set sail from Plymouth: Charles Darwin was 22 bit.ly/2iBI24q #science #explore
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14 years ago #Today, the Bitcoin genesis block was created [read more: buff.ly/3QdtglO]
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50 years ago #Today, one of the earliest arcade video games, #Pong, was originally released by Atari bit.ly/1JQZDlB
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90 years ago #Today, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly non-stop across the United States ubm.io/2wBNM9G
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Born #Today in 1923, Freeman Dyson was a legendary theoretical physicist and visionary technologist. He helped create modern particle physics, criticized nuclear weapons tests, and imagined how civilizations could take to the stars [read more: buff.ly/2Pt6mZp]
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#Today in 2015, SpaceX flight 20 (also known as Orbcomm OG2 M2) was the first in which the booster of an orbital rocket made a successful return and vertical landing [full coverage: buff.ly/3WtIg0y]