Events
2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
Births
1637 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch scientist
1665 - Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician
1785 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist
1804 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist
1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist
1918 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1612 - Christopher Clavius, German astronomer
1799 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist
1958 - Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist
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