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On this day in 1905 – October 22nd – American physicist and radio engineer Karl Jansky was born in Norman, Oklahoma Territory.

In August 1931 Jansky was the first to discover radio waves of extraterrestrial origin. He's considered one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.


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