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Events

1846 - Discovery of Neptune by Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and John Couch Adams

1884 - Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.

1999 - NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.

Births

1791 - Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer

1819 - Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist

1852 - William Stewart Halsted, American surgeon

1880 - John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and Nobel Prize laureate

1915 - Clifford Shull, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1873 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer

1929 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist

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