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Events
1995 - 51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
Births
1459 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (
1510 - John Caius, English physician
1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist
1903 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer
1931 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1873 - Sir PaweÅ Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist
1951 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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