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"... only the second American to design and fly a prototype helicopter in 1943, two years after... Igor Sikorsky had flown the first. Unlike Sikorsky, however, Piasecki concentrated on helicopters with tandem rotors..."

#FrankPiasecki
1919-2008
Born on this day

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Obituary: Frank Piasecki
Obituary: Helicopter pioneer who invented one of world's most famous aircraft, the Chinook
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"His journey - from birth in a small wooden house with no plumbing... to his flight around the earth in the space shuttle Challenger in 1984, to his death in its explosion this January - required 35 years."

#RonaldMcNair
1950-1986
Born on this day

www.nytimes.com/1986/05/18/o...
ASTRONAUT BURIED IN CAROLINA; 35-YEAR 'MISSION' IS COMPLETE (Published 1986)
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"Bolden’s leap from bus passenger to leader of a powerful labor organization was not far-fetched to those who knew her."

#DorothyBolden
1924-2005
Born on this day

www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/o...
Overlooked No More: Dorothy Bolden, Who Started a Movement for Domestic Workers (Published 2019)
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"'I operate on the principle that I might get hit by a bus tomorrow. And I’d hate the obituaries to have to read: ‘And her last album was her not-very-good album.’”

#KirstyMacColl
1959-2000
Born on this day

www.theguardian.com/news/2000/de...
Obituary Kirsty MacColl
Gifted but restless singer ill at ease with an industry she despised
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"It all started, her mother said, when Janice was 6 and picked up a book at the local library, 'A Wrinkle in Time' by Madeleine L’Engle..."

#JaniceVoss
1956-2012
Born on this day

www.nytimes.com/2012/02/10/s...
Janice Voss, Shuttle Astronaut and Scientist, Dies at 55 (Published 2012)
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"... she was instrumental in expanding the legal definition of rape, including the recognition of marital rape. She also fought for equal pay..."

#LeticiaRamosShahani
1929-2017
Born on this day

www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/o...
Overlooked No More: Leticia Ramos Shahani, a Philippine Women’s Rights Pioneer (Published 2018)
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