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Today in Science (0103)
January 3, 2008
Events
1496 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
1999 – The Mars Polar Lander launches.
Births
1722 – Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist
Deaths
1641 – Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer
1927 – Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist
1969 – Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer
1980 – Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist
1496 – Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
Even though it didn’t fly, he did an incredible job with that and so many other things, for a man at that point in time!
Dave Briggs :~)