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March 19th
Events
1915 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but was not recognized as a planet
Births
1684 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar
1865 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology
1883 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize…
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