Events
1968 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
Births
1758 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer
1884 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1705 - Guillaume Amontons, French physicist and instrument maker
1811 - Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician and naturalist
1889 - James Prescott Joule, English physicist
1940 - Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist
1989 - M. King Hubbert, American geophysicist
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