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On This Day – 4 September

Posted on: Wed 4 Sep 2019

On This Day;

in 1682, English astronomer Edmund Halley observes the comet that would be named after him.

Halley read reports of three comets being observed roughly 75 years apart, however determined that they were all the same comet returning over and over again.

in 1998, Google was incorporated into a privately held company.

Breakfast’s Zoe Kounadis and Tom Mann elaborate more on these events in history.

Produced by Zoe Kounadis
Image Sourced: Philipp Salzgeber (CC BY-SA 2.0)

 

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