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On February 2, 1653, New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in North America was incorporated as a city. The city later evolved to become the…
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February 2 1907 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Inventor of the Periodic Table of Elements, Dies in St. Petersburg
by Vishul MalikThroughout the history of science, there have been numerous discoveries which have changed the face of the discipline — perhaps none of them simpler than Dmitri Mendeleev’s invention of the…