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One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1706
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston. A printer by trade, he became a self-taught scientist whose experiments with electricity gave us the lightning rod, along with bifocals, the Franklin stove, and the first chart of the Gulf Stream.
Source: Wikipedia
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