On This Day in History |
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1781 William Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus |
 | Chester Greenwood's patent for "ear mufflers" and inset, Greenwood modeling his earmuffs |
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1877 American Chester Greenwood patents earmuffs after inventing them at age 15 |
1884 Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins by Mahdist forces, lasts 10 months |
1903 Fall of the Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria, the British claim supremacy on over 500,000 square miles |
1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory |
2003 The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy |
2019 US grounds all Boeing 737 Max aircraft after bans by others countries following the plane type's second crash in Ethiopia |
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Nothing suggested that Daniel Lambert, born on this day, would evolve from an athletic youngster to the mountain of a man that he became. |
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