March 8th
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1712 - Birth of John Fothergill, English physician
1886 - Birth of Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1914 - Birth of Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist
1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating pandemic.
1923 - Death of Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch Nobel Prize laureate
2005 - Death of César Lattes, Brazilian physicist
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January 22nd
1561 - Birth of Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher
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2003 - Last successful contact with Pioneer 10.
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