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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