Events
1885 - The first successful appendectomy is performed by William W. Grant.
1958 - Sputnik 1 falls to Earth from its orbit
1959 - Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
2004 - Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars
Births
1643 - Isaac Newton, English natural philosopher
1894 - Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician
1900 - James Bond, American ornithologist
1940 - Brian David Josephson, British physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1945 - Richard R. Schrock, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1761 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist
1961 - Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1995 - Sol Tax, American anthropologist
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