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Events

1966 - Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft land on another world.

2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan.

Births

1949 - Heather Couper, British astronomer

Deaths

1785 - Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician

2000 - Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician

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