Events
1660 - At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society of London.
1964 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
2004 - A male Po’o-uli dies of avian malaria in Maui Bird Conservation Center before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
Births
1700 - Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal
1772 - Luke Howard, British meteorologist
1805 - John Stephens, American archeologist
1908 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist
1950 - Russell Alan Hulse, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1801 - Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu, French geologist
1872 - Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer
1954 - Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1987 - Choh Hao Li, Chinese biochemist
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