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1961 - NASA launched the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
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1951 - Carlos Frenk, Mexican/British cosmologist
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1449 - Ulugh Beg, Timurid ruler and astronomer
1968 - Lise Meitner, German physicist
1980 - John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1992 - David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist
1999 - Robert Mills, American physicist
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