Events
1838 - Samuel Morse first successfully tests the electrical telegraph.
Births
1714 - Percivall Pott, English physician
1795 - Anselme Payen, French chemist
1822 - Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist
1920 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist
1932 - Stuart A. Rice, American chemist
1944 - Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Swiss immunologist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1689 - Seth Ward, English mathematician and astronomer
1731 - Ãtienne François Geoffroy, French chemist
1884 - Gregor Johann Mendel, Austrian geneticist (above)
1945 - Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist
1990 - Pavel Alekseyevich Äerenkov, Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
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