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||1884: Mary R. Calvert born ... astronomer and author.
||1884: Mary R. Calvert born ... astronomer and author.
||1889: John S. Paraskevopoulos born ... astronomer and academic. His goal -- building a large telescope in Greece -- was never realized, due to the war between Greece and Turkey. Pic.


||1897: Harold Frederick Pitcairn born ... aviation inventor and pioneer. He played a key role in the development of the autogyro and founded the Autogiro Company of America. He patented a number of innovations relating to rotary wing aircraft. Pic.
||1897: Harold Frederick Pitcairn born ... aviation inventor and pioneer. He played a key role in the development of the autogyro and founded the Autogiro Company of America. He patented a number of innovations relating to rotary wing aircraft. Pic.

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