Inventor Richard Rhodes received the patent for a hearing aid.
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Johannes Ostermeier patented the flashbulb for cameras.
Iran blocked access to Google and Gmail due to an anti-Islam movie that triggered protests worldwide.
The Japanese Space Agency sent two robots to explore an asteroid aboard their Hayabusa-2 spacecraft.
Version 0.1 of the standalone open-source Mozilla Firefox web browser was released.
A study was published by the journal Nature saying that scientists had identified four distinct types of breast cancer.