Events
1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree separately observe the first recorded transit of Venus
1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species.
Births
1774 - Thomas Dick, Scottish scientific teacher and writer
1888 - Fredrick Willius, American cardiologist
1925 - Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
2006 - ZdenÄk Veselovský, Czech zoologist
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