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1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
2004 – The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe’s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
Births
1672 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist
1743 – Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist
1910 – William Shockley, American physicist, eugenicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1787 – Ruđer Bošković, Croatian scientist
2005 – Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist