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By jlynch on April 5, 2007.

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Events

648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.

1938 - Teflon is discovered.

1965 - Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

1973 - Launch of Pioneer 11 (current position above)

Births

1613 - Stjepan GradiÄ, Croatian philosopher and scientist

1851 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer

1911 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1920 - Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1928 - James D. Watson, American geneticist, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1949 - Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1829 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician

1838 - José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman and geologist

1961 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1963 - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer

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