This Day, That Year – December 30

Asa Griggs Candler, an American business tycoon and politician who purchased the Coca-Cola recipe, was born on this day in 1851.

Did you know that:

• Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announced the existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society on this day in 1924
• The first picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab) was taken on this day in 1973
• Volker Reiffenrath’s high-multiplexed, supertwist liquid display was patented on this day in 1997