On this day:
1995: First exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, Bellerophon, discovered
2007: First successful human powered attempt to circumnavigate the world by Englishman Jason Lewis
Born on this day:
1846: George Westinghouse, American engineer, inventor
Gone on this day:
1542: Thomas Wyatt, English poet
1892: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet
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