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Events
1655 – Saturn‘s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens.
1979 – The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
1992 – Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
Births
1539 – Christopher Clavius, German mathematician
1800 – Heinrich von Dechsen, German geologist
1863 – Simon Flexner, American pathologist
1884 – Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist
1946 – Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist
1952 – Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician
Deaths
1712 – Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist
1818 – Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician
March 27, 2007