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On this day in history 5 Feb
1676 Isaac Newton writes to fellow polymath Robert Hooke “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”
1803 English explorer George Bass and crew set sail from Sydney to Tahiti and Chile - they're never seen again
1859 Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities
1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia
1869 World's largest alluvial gold nugget, the Welcome Stranger, is found by John Deason and Richard Oates (weighing 97.14 kg) in Moliagul, Australia
1924 1st Winter Olympic Games close at Chamonix, France
1996 British supermarket chains stock genetically modified tomato puree, the first GM food sold in the country
2016 Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York using Bangladesh banking codes, steal 81 million before a typo alerts authorities
Birthdays:
John Witherspoons 1723-1794
Nicolae Ceaușescu 1918-1989
Cristiano Ronaldo 41st
Neymar 34th
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