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- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
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Events
1991 - World Wide Web debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
Births
1844 - Auguste Michel-Lévy, French geologist
1932 - Dr. Maurice Rabb, Jr., African American ophthalmologist
Deaths
1639 - Martin van den Hove, Dutch scientist
1848 - Jöns Jakob Berzelius, Swedish chemist…