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2 things science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1910
Psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin named Alzheimer's disease after his colleague Alois Alzheimer, who had first described its telltale brain changes. Naming it was the first step toward understanding and fighting it.
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1975
American and Soviet spacecraft launched to meet in orbit for the Apollo-Soyuz mission, the first joint crewed flight by the two rivals. Two days later their crews shook hands high above the Earth.
Source: Wikipedia
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