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Events

1967 - Venera 4 (the first space probe to enter another planet’s atmosphere and successfully return data) is launched

Births

1577 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician

1812 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist

1899 - Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)

1942 - Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel laureate

Deaths

1982 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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