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Events

1773 - The Whirlpool Galaxy (above) was discovered by Charles Messier

1892 - Edward Emerson Barnard discovers D/1892 T1 (Barnard 3), the first comet discovered by photographic means

1976 - The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained by F.A. Murphy at the C.D.C..

2003 - The Public Library of Science commences publication of an open access scientific journal, PLoS Biology.

Births

1820 - John William Dawson, Canadian geologist

1821 - Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician

Deaths

1687 - Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer

1987 - Walter Brattain, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

2003 - Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate