This Day in History.(News)

The Mercury (South Africa) | August 22, 2006 | Copyright

1784 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, the German astronomer and mathematician who calculated the path of Halley's Comet, is born.

1888 US microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman is born. ...

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