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Events

1921 - Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.

1994 - Discovery of the chemical element Darmstadtium.

Births

1721 - Mark Akenside, English poet and physician

1731 - Benjamin Banneker, American scientist

1873 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist

1874 - Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist

1885 - Theodor Kaluza, German scientist

1897 - Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist and Nobel Prize laureate

1934 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer

Deaths

2002 - William Schutz, American psychologist

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