Events
1977 - Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.
1982 - Syzygy: all nine planets align on the same side of the Sun.
2006 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
Births
1628 - Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician
1709 - Georg Steller, German naturalist
Deaths
1585 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist
1670 - Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist
1942 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1966 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
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