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1846 – Discovery of Neptune by Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and John Couch Adams
1884 – Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
1999 – NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.
Births
1791 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer
1819 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist
1852 – William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon
1880 – John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and Nobel Prize laureate
1915 – Clifford Shull, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1873 – Jean Chacornac, French astronomer
1929 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1939 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist