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1951 - Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes synthesizes the first oral contraceptive
1997 - The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
2001 - NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io.
Births
1608 - Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
1829 - Asaph Hall, American astronomer
1909 - Jesse Leonard Greenstein, American astronomer
1940 - Peter Doherty, Australian immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1980 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian physicist and mathematician
2000 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
2003 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
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