Events
1962 - Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1994 - Physicists announce first evidence of the top quark subatomic particle.
Births
1774 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist
1785 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator
1879 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1900 - Charles Richter, American geophysicist
1932 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel laureate
1933 - Arno Allan Penzias, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1920 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician
1940 - Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1951 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist
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