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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 – Zdeněk Veselovský, Czech zoologist