Events
1862 - Comet Swift-Tuttle is discovered by Lewis Swift.
1945 - Manhattan Project: The Atomic Age begins when the United States successfully detonates (see above) a plutonium-based test nuclear weapon at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
1994 - Jupiter is hit by fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
Births
1888 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate
1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate
1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate
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1704 - Birth of Louis Godin, French astronomer
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1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist
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