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Events

1807 - The asteroid Vesta is discovered.

1974 - NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury (see above)

Births

1824 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician

1873 - Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician

1927 - John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1941 - Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate

1965 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist

Deaths

1772 - Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician

1873 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist

1912 - Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist

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