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Events

1977 - The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox.

1984 - "Baby Fae" receives a heart transplant from a baboon.

1994 - Announcement that Andrew Wiles correctly proved Fermat’s last theorem.

Births

1874 - Martin Lowry, British chemist

Deaths

1817 - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian scientist

1943 - Marc Aurel Stein, Hungarian-born archaeologist

1957 - Gerty Cori, Nobel Prize laureate

1989 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate