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#BornToday in 1894 a polyglot well versed in several languages - Bengali, English, French, German and Sanskrit, a polymath with wide range of interests including physics, mathematics, chemistry, biology, mineralogy, philosophy, arts, literature, and music.

Satyendra Nath Bose Image
The most important achievement of Bose is his association with Einstein.

While Bose was working on quantum physics and relativity theory, he wrote a paper on deriving Planck's quantum radiation law and sent it to Albert Einstein, who recognized the importance of the research. Image
Einstein translated it into German - it became the basis for many discoveries in the field of Physics.

Bose-Einstein condensate was an outcome of Bose and Einstein's prediction of a state of matter of a dilute gas of bosons. Image
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#BornToday Pele - a man credited with more than 1000 goals.

A man who despised penalties, his 1000th goal was ironically a penalty.
He could have scored his 1000th on the day he scored his 999th.

But his team's goalkeeper was injured and SURPRISE SURPRISE, Pele stood in goal.

Almost as bad as having Messi as your draught excluder.
Mohun Bagan paid $5000 to the New York Cosmos who had signed Pele to play an exhibition game in India.

According to @SGanguly99, Pele is the greatest player to have played at the Eden Gardens.
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#borntoday Tom Cruise, one of the highest paid and most sought after actors in screen history. #didyouknow as a youngster he was deeply religious & wanted to become a priest. Seen here in Top Gun, Mission: Impossible, Minority Report & A Few Good Men ImageImageImageImage
#DidYouKnow he was the first actor in history to star in five consecutive films that grossed $100 million in the US: A Few Good Men, The Firm, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Mission: Impossible and Jerry Maguire #Moviefacts #FilmQuiz
#DidYouKnow He didn’t stay for the remainder of 2002 Academy Awards after opening them coz it was his turn to look after his and ex-wife Nicole Kidman's kids. He reportedly left Kodak Theatre by back door and dashed home to watch the rest of the event on TV with his kids
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