Today is my birthday, so don't expect any postings from me ... I'm going to relax for the day. I however dutifully present your events for the day ...
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1783 - The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière
Births
1787 - Constant Prévost, French geologist
1877 - Heinrich Wieland, German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1916 - Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Deaths
1973 - Maurice René Fréchet, French mathematician
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Wishing you a very Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday John!
I hope belated counts. Happy birthday and this from Dr. Seuss:
If we didn't have birthdays,
You wouldn't be you.
If you'd never have been born,
Well then what would you do?