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By jlynch on March 17, 2007.

March 18th

Events

1906 - Traian Vuia flew a self-propelled heavier-than-air aircraft which took off without any external means

1909 - Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter becoming the first radio broadcaster.

1965 - Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space

Births

1602 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician

1640 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer

1690 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician

1858 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor

1905 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist

1907 - John Zachary Young, biologist

1935 - Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician

Deaths

1871 - Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician

1907 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist

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History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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Traian Vuia, sounds like the original sky gypsy and it is a good day to fly.
Greetings from Rodeo New Mexico and the Rodeo Flying Circus

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