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1959 - The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
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1769 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer
1804 - John Gould, British ornithologist who worked on Darwin’s specimens from the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
1849 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian scientist and Nobel Prize laureate
1909 - Peter Scott, British naturalist
1936 - Ferid Murad, American physician and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1712 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-born astronomer
1879 - Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist
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