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Events

1801 - Dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.

1925 - Edwin Hubble announces the discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way.

1983 - The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.

1985 - The Internet’s Domain Name System is created.

1989 - The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer comes into force.

Births

1774 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist

1854 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist

1876 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist

1878 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer

1917 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist

Deaths

1800 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist

1817 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist

1862 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist

1894 - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist

1931 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist

1995 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

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