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		<title>July 5, 1904 (a Tuesday)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr.
On this date, the American biologist Ernst Mayr was born in Germany.  He began bird watching as a young boy, and by the age of ten, he could recognize all of the local bird species by call as well as sight.  Mayr was known for his work in avian taxonomy, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diogenesii.wordpress.com&blog=1204467&post=34&subd=diogenesii&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>July 5, 1687</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this date, the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) by Isaac Newton was published.  This three-volume work contains the statement of Newton’s laws of motion forming the foundation of classical mechanics, as well as his law of universal gravitation and a derivation of Kepler’s laws for the motion of the planets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diogenesii.wordpress.com&blog=1204467&post=2685&subd=diogenesii&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>July 4, 1831 (a Monday)</title>
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HMS Beagle
On this date, the HMS Beagle was commissioned under the command of Captain Robert FitzRoy, with Lieutenants John Clements Wickham and Bartholomew James Sulivan.  FitzRoy was all too aware of the stress and loneliness of command on the high seas in that era.  During the Beagle&#8217;s previous voyage, its captain, Pringle Stokes, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diogenesii.wordpress.com&blog=1204467&post=133&subd=diogenesii&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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