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Events

1998 - Launch of the Deep Space 1 mission

Births

1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist

1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer

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