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On This Day … 16 September [2022]

Events People (Births) People (Deaths) 1736 – Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-Dutch physicist and engineer, invented the thermometer (b. 1686). 1865 – Christian de Meza, Danish general (b. 1792). 2005 – Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser (b. 1920). 2012 – Julien J. LeBourgeois, American admiral (b. 1923). 2015 – Allan Wright, English… Read More