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1977 – The Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are terminated.
2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken. PZ Myers is ecstatic.
Births
1530 – Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician
1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1882 – Hans Geiger, German physicist
1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1939 – Jean-Marie Lehn, French chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1943 – Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1951 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1985 – Charles Richter, American seismologist
1994 – Andre Michael Lwoff, French microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
September 30, 2007