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Events

1959 - Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.

Births

1927 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychologist

1939 - Harold Kroto, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1911 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist

1926 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist

1994 - Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born Danish immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate

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