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Events

1633 - The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins.

1937 - Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft

1961 - Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space.

Births

1748 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist

1852 - Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician

1884 - Otto Meyerhof, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

Deaths

1971 - Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1997 - George Wald, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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