Events
1687 - Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
1951 - William Shockley invents the junction transistor.
1996 - Birth of Dolly, first cloned mammal. Dolly died in 2003 and now resides at the Royal Museum of Scotland (above)
1998 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.
Births
1888 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1891 - John Howard Northrop, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1904 - Ernst Mayr, American ornithologist and evolutionary biologist
Deaths
1859 - Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist
1862 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist
1927 - Albrecht Kossel, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1966 - George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
A pretty distinguished day, I'd say.
Mind you, I'm bemused by the use of the verb "resides" ... :-)