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1879 - The United States Geological Survey is created.
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1918 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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1703 - Robert Hooke, English scientist
1765 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist
1988 - Sewall Wright, American evolutionary biologist
1999 - Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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