Today in Science (0817)

Events

1970 - Venera 7 launched towards Venus. It became the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet.

Births

1828 - Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist

1873 - John A. Sampson, American gynecologist

Deaths

1673 - Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist

2005 - John Bahcall, astrophysicist

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