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2 things science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1747
Ship's surgeon James Lind divided scurvy-stricken sailors into groups and gave some of them oranges and lemons, proving citrus was the cure. His experiment founded the modern science of clinical trials.
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1875
Seventeen nations signed the Metre Convention in Paris, creating a shared international standard for the metre and the kilogram. It gave science and trade a common language of measurement that most of the world still uses.
Source: Wikipedia
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