Check out some of the events that took place on this day in history:

1684 Issac Newton's Paper Presented To Royal Society

Edmund Halley presents Isaac Newtons’ paper on Kepler’s laws from his theory of gravity to the Royal Society

1901 First Nobel Peace Prizes Awarded

It was on this da y back in 1901 that the first ever Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded.  They were presented to jean Henri Dunant who was the founder of the Red Cross and peace activist Frederic Passy.

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