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Day In History
1792
La Marseillaise is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
1859
British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
1939
DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.
1953
Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.
1959
The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
1960
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1961
Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
1983
Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
2003
The Human Genome Project comes to an end two and a half years earlier than expected.
Famous
Birthdays
1599
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1658)
1621
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)
1710
James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
1874
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (d. 1937)
1900
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
1908
Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
1917
Ella Fitzgerald, American singer (d. 1996)
1932
Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player
1933
Jerry Leiber, American composer
1940
Al Pacino, American actor
1945
Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer and songwriter (ABBA)
1950
Peter Jurasik, American actor
1964
Hank Azaria, American actor and voice actor
1969
Joe Buck, American sports broadcaster
Gina Torres, American actress
1970
Jason Lee, American actor
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