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Events

1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew.

1965 - For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini 4 for the first time.

Births

1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer

1723 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist

1726 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist

1873 - Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

1879 - Raymond Pearl, American biologist

1899 - Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

1923 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician

1924 - Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

1929 - Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

Deaths

1971 - Heinz Hopf, German mathematician

1977 - Archibald Vivian Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate

1991 - Katia Krafft, French volcanologist

1991 - Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist