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By jlynch on February 3, 2007.

February 3rd

1737 - Death of Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician

1754 - Birth of George Crabbe, English naturalist

1817 - Birth of Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist

1821 - Birth of Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician

1862 - Death of Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist

1893 - Birth of Gaston Julia, French mathematician

1920 - Birth of Henry Heimlich, American physician

1929 - Death of Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist

1956 - Death of Émile Borel, French mathematician

1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon

1984 - On STS-41-B astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make first untethered spacewalks using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.

1985 - Death of Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist

2005 - Death of Ernst Mayr, German-born ornithologist and evolutionary biologist

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