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1684 – Isaac Newton’s derivation of Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley
1901 – First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded
1799 – Metric system 1st used in France
1868 – The 1st traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London
2013 – Uruguay becomes the 1st country to legalize the growth, sale & use of marijuana
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
(21 Oct 1833 – 10 Dec 1896)
Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator & armaments manufacturer
He was the inventor of dynamite
He also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron & steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon & other armaments
But..
After seeing how much damage the dynamite caused, he used his fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes
Alfred Nobel.
McJ
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