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1961 – Lawrencium is first synthesized at the University of California.
2000 – NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
Births
1848 – Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer
1869 – Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1898 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-American physicist and astronomer
Deaths
1975 – Julian Huxley, British biologist
1989 – James Bond, American ornithologist
2003 – Dolly, first cloned mammal