Events
1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables."
1951 - UNIVAC I is dedicated by U.S. Census Bureau.
1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris - later becoming the European Space Agency.
1967 - Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
Births
1726 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist
1736 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist
1864 - Alois Alzheimer, German physician
1868 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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