Today in History
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| This Day in History |
| 1829 |
William Austin Burt patented the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter |
| 1852 |
Death of William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) |
| 1903 |
The Ford Motor Company sells its first car |
| 1928 |
Birth of Vera Rubin, astrophysicist who discovered that galaxies are not uniformly distributed but rather clump together |
| 1962 |
Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television program, featuring Walter Cronkite. |
| 1972 |
The United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite |
| 2000 |
Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam at the British Open, age 24 |
| 2014 |
The first cohort of the #MSUrbanSTEM program finishes their their 2 weeks face to face component – and look forward to the upcoming year… |
