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#TodayInScienceHistory offers unique glimpses into the everyday marvels of scientific achievement & discovery by scientists of all backgrounds around the world.

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#TodayInScienceHistory 1986 Soviet authorities order the evacuation of Pripyat 1 day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

Soviet officials had little concept of how badly nuclear emissions were pouring into the city and their response has since been widely criticized.

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#TodayinScienceHistory 1st atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada.

Ironically, the broadcast experienced technical difficulties as the blast blinded the camera from the immense radiation released from the explosion. Viewers saw a flash of black with a pinpoint of light.

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#TodayinScienceHistory 2019 Climate activist Greta Thunberg speaks at a Extinction Rebellion protest in London amid city-wide climate protests where Waterloo Bridge was occupied over four days.

Officially established in May 2018, XR aims to raises awareness on extinction.

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#TodayinScienceHistory 2010, The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes, killing 11 and causing the rig to sink, causing a massive oil dump of 4M barrels into the Gulf of Mexico and an environmental disaster.

The oil slick could be viewed by satellites from space at the time.

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#TodayinScienceHistory 1975 The Aryabhata spacecraft, named after the famous Indian astronomer, was India's first satellite; it was completely designed and fabricated in India and launched by a Soviet Kosmos-3M rocket from Kapustin Yar.

Final transmission was in March of 1981.

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#TodayinScienceHistory 2013 A team of scientists has discovered two Earth-like planets in the habitable orbit of a sun-like star. Using observations gathered by @NASA's Kepler mission, the team found five planets orbiting a Sun-like star called Kepler-62.

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#TodayInScienceHistory 1930 DuPont scientist Elmer K. Bolton invents neoprene, a flexible material that withstands a wide range of temperatures, using Julius Nieuwland's divinyl acetylene.

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#TodayinScienceHistory 1943 in Basel, Switzerland, chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD after accidentally consuming LSD-25 in his pharmaceutical laboratory and feeling the "mind-expanding" effects on the way home.