08-25-2006, 06:11 PM
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August 25th
1609 ~ Galileo demonstrated his first telescope to the Venetian Senate.
1835 ~ The New York Sun printed The Great Moon Hoax.
1867 ~ Death of Michael Faraday, Scientist.
1875 ~ Matthew Webb became the first man to swim the English Channel.
1894 ~ Shibasaburo Kitasato discovered the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and published his findings in The Lancet.
1900 ~ Birthday of Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, Scientist. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953.
1900 ~ Death of Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher.
1918 ~ Birthday of Leonard Bernstein, Conductor & Composer.
1944 ~ Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
1982 ~ Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune.
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