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1957 - Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
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1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer
1723 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist
1916 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1918 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1938 - Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1947 - Max Planck, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
2000 - Michael Smith, Canadian biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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