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1962 – Mariner 2 launched to Venus.
2003 – Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
Births
1874 – Carl Bosch, Nobel Prize laureate
1915 – Norman F. Ramsey, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1909 – Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist
1958 – Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate