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Actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke turns 98 years old today!

It was on his sitcom, 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' that Dick Van Dyke established himself as a top tier physical comics.
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Mary Ann Todd was born to an aristocratic family of slave owners in Lexington, Kentucky on this day in 1818.

She would later marry a lanky lawyer from Illinois and become First Lady of the United States during the Civil War.

📸: Mary Todd Lincoln in 1861 (Matthew Brady)

Mary Ann Todd was born to an aristocratic family of slave owners in Lexington, Kentucky on this day in 1818. She would later marry a lanky lawyer from Illinois and become First Lady of the United States during the Civil War. 📸: Mary Todd Lincoln in 1861 (Matthew Brady)
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☀️ Happy Birthday to the Sun Queen! ☀️

Scientist and inventor Mária Telkes, a pioneer in the field of solar energy, was born on December 12, 1900, in Budapest, Hungary.

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'You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.'

Crooner Frank Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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'You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.' Crooner Frank Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey. 📸: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress)
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Annie Jump Cannon, born December 11, 1863, revolutionized the way scientists classify stars, manually classifying 350,000 of them herself.
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Heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali, who faced off in such historic matches as the 'Fight of the Century', the 'Rumble in the Jungle' and the 'Thrilla in Manila', fought one last time on December 11, 1981 in the 'Drama in Bahama'.
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In 1872, a deadly flu virus shut down the US economy - but not for its danger to humans. The virus was spreading among horses.
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Just 30 years after the Civil War, the Gilded Age, with its emphasis on industrialization and progress, held a special promise for Black Americans. Meet the extraordinary women of late-1800s Brooklyn who worked to realize that promise.
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The physician and microbiologist Robert Koch was born on December 11, 1843. Koch's discovery that tuberculosis was contagious and preventable led to major advancements in treating the disease.
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Though it would not be released in America until February of the next year, 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' was published in London on this day in 1884.

Learn about why this American story often lands on lists of banned or challenged books 👇
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The UN adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948, outlining 30 rights and freedoms that belong to all human beings. Former First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt was instrumental in drafting the document.
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The first president to mark Hanukkah at the White House was Jimmy Carter, with the lighting of both the (electric) National Menorah and a smaller menorah in an outdoor ceremony in 1979.
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After ten years of a worldwide vaccination campaign, a Global Commission of the World Health Organization declared on this day in 1979 that smallpox had been eradicated.

A natural case of smallpox has not been reported in a human being since 1977.
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