ON THIS DAY
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|December 27, 2025
1822: Louis Pasteur, chemist and bacteriologist, was born in Dole, France.
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1831: Admiralty survey ship HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, set out from Plymouth on a scientific voyage around the world, which led to Darwin writing his controversial On the Origin of Species.
1901: Marlene Dietrich, German actress who starred in The Blue Angel (1930), was born.
1904: The first performance of JM Barrie’s Peter Pan took place at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London.
1927:
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