Born on This Day
Ground-breaking comedian who attacked 1960s social conventions in profanity-laced routines that frequently got him arrested.
Singer-songwriter whose work with Art Garfunkel (like "Bridge Over Troubled Water") influenced the 1960s counterculture.
British actor and comedian who creates outrageous characters like Borat to satirize modern society in hidden-camera interviews.
French astronomer Charles Messier discovers the first spiral galaxy, dubbing it the Whirlpool Galaxy. Only in the early 2000s did scientists confirm the spiral shape of our own home, the Milky Way—one of as many as 2 trillion galaxies in the universe.
Timeline
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History Every Day
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