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2017-12-10

2017-12-10

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Robert Koch
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Robert Koch

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Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".

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A hamster wheel or running wheel is an exercise device used primarily by hamsters and other rodents, but also by other c…

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On This Day

10 events
2021
Edwardsville_Amazon_warehouse_collapse
A tornado strikes an Amazon warehouse during increased holiday demand, killing six sheltering workers.
1993
Doom_(1993_video_game)
The video game Doom, later considered the "father" of the first-person shooter genre, is released.
1992
Zayed_bin_Sultan_Al_Nahyan
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan establishes the Marriage Fund in the United Arab Emirates in response to rising wedding prices.
1989
Tsakhiagiin_Elbegdorj
At the first open pro-democracy demonstration in Mongolia, journalist Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announced the formation of the Mongolian Democratic Union, which would be instrumental in ending communist rule four months later.
1983
Raúl_Alfonsín
Raúl Alfonsín (pictured) became the first democratically elected president of Argentina to take office after more than seven years of military dictatorship.
1970
Mae_Salong
Around the northern Thai village of Mae Salong, remnants of Chinese anti-communist forces now fighting on behalf of the Thai government launched a five-year campaign against local communist insurgents.
1967
Otis_Redding
Soul and blues singer, Otis Redding, along with members of his back-up group, The Bar-Kays, are killed when their helicopter crashes in Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin.
1942
Edward_Bernard_Raczyński
Edward Raczyński of the Polish government-in-exile issued a note that was the first official report on the Holocaust.
1941
World_War_II
Second World War: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers east of Malaya.
1936
Edward_VIII
Edward VIII, desiring to marry the American socialite Wallis Simpson against widespread British opposition, signed the instrument of abdication to renounce the throne in favour of his brother George VI.

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