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
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