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| | | | 1261: Michael VIII Palaeologus recovers the city of Constantinople and is crowned Byzantine emperor there, restoring Greek control over the Byzantine Empire after a half century of Latin rule.
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1895: Pierre Curie marries fellow chemist Marie Sklodowska. The two researchers will share the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903 for their work on radioactivity.
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1929: Pope Pius XI makes the first public appearance by a pope outside the Vatican since 1870.
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1978: Louise Joy Brown, the world's first "test-tube" baby, is born in England. She is the product of in vitro fertilization, in which the mother's egg is fertilized outside of her body.
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1997: K. R. Narayanan is sworn in as president of India, becoming the first member of India's Dilit or "untouchable" caste to lead the country.
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1999: American cyclist Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France, bicycle racing's top event, less than three years after being diagnosed with testicular cancer.
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| | | | Who am I? I was born on this day in 1920. My research contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA.
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