On this day:
1948: Burma gains independence from the United Kingdom
1958: Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from orbit. The Soviet Union was the first nation to send an artificial Earth satellite into space.
Born on this day:
1809: Louis Braille, the French educator, invented Braille
Gone on this day:
1941: Henri Bergson, French philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate
1960: Albert Camus, French author, journalist, philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate
1961: Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1965: T. S. Eliot, American/English publisher, playwright, critic, Nobel Prize laureate
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