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 March 23
 1749: French mathematician
Pierre-Simon
Laplace born. 1775: American revolutionary
Patrick Henry declared, "...give me liberty, or give me death!"
1857: The world's first passenger
safety elevator, by Elisha Otis, went into service in a store
in New York City. 1873:
Richard
Proctor, who first proposed that lunar craters are caused by meteors rather
than volcanic actions, was born. 1903: The Wright brothers obtained an airplane
patent. 1909: British Lt. Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole. 1912: German
rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun was born. 1983: President Ronald Reagan announced
the Strategic Defensive Initiative (SDI, or "Star Wars"). 1989: Electrochemists
Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman announced that they had created
nuclear ("cold")
fusion in a test tube at room temperature. 2001: The Russian space station,
Mir, burned up in
Earth's atmosphere after far out-living its designed lifespan. 2007: Set theory
mathematician Paul
Cohen died.
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Note: These
historical tidbits have been collected from various sources, mostly on the Internet.
As detailed in
this article, there
is a lot of wrong information that is repeated hundreds of times because most websites
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