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1576 - The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg observatory is laid on Hven.
1908 - Wilbur Wright makes his first public flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.
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1901 - Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1902 - Paul Dirac, English physicist Nobel Prize laureate
1921 - John Herbert Chapman, British physicist
1931 - Roger Penrose, British physicist
Deaths
1553 - Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physician
1828 - Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist
1977 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, Nobel Prize Laureate
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1704 - Birth of Louis Godin, French astronomer
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1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer
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1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist
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