Events
1986 - Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds after liftoff killing all seven astronauts onboard
Births
1608 - Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist
1611 - Johannes Hevelius, astronomer
1622 - Adrien Auzout, French astronomer
1755 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician
1884 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist
1922 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1687 - Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer
1864 - Ãmile Clapeyron, French engineer and physicist
1915 - Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist
1988 - Klaus Fuchs, German physicist
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1540 - Birth of Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician
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