Events
2001 - Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
2003 - Galileo mission terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter’s atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
Births
1853 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
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1926 - Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1874 - Jean-Baptiste Ãlie de Beaumont, French geologist
1971 - Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate
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