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1932 - Walter Gilbert, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
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1656 - James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop who claimed the universe was created in 4004 BCE
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1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew.
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1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer
1723 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist…
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1804 - John Gould, British ornithologist who worked on Darwin’s specimens from the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
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