Today in History
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| This Day in History |
| 1606 |
Rembrandt was born |
| 1799 |
The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchardduring Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign |
| 1848 |
Born, Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923) [The 80/20 rule] |
1903
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Ford Motor Company took its first order |
| 1928 |
Born Carl Woese (biologist at UIUC). Discovered a new kingdom of life – prokaryotes, eukaryotes and now archea. [“I think Woese has done more for biology writ large than any biologist in history, including Darwin”] |
| 1943 |
Born, Jocylen Bell Burnell, astronomer, discovered pulsars/neutron stars. Did not receive a nobel prize. |
| 1988 |
Die Hard (the greatest action film ever made) hits the big screen |
| 2003 |
The Mozilla Foundation was established and Netscape was dismantled. |
| 2006 |
Twitter was launched |
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