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1961 – NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
Births
1951 – Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
Deaths
1449 – Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer
1968 – Lise Meitner, German physicist
1980 – John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1992 – David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist
1999 – Robert Mills, American physicist