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Sir William Herschel, Discoverer of the planet Uranus, born today in 1738
Georgia O'Keeffe, artist, born today in 1887, at Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
Daniel Barenboim, musician, conductor and spouse of Jaqueline du Pré (click here), born today in 1942
And reversing those numbers, the first recorded reference to tobacco was made, today in 1492, though whether it was by the Spanish explorer Cristóbal Colón or the Genoese explorer Cristoforo Colombo is open to as much debate as you can manage, preferably without too much coughing and spitting, and No Smoking in the chamber thank you very much.
First papal visit to West Germany in 200 years, today in 1980. Yes, but did it achieve anything?
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