Events
1961 - Lawrencium is first synthesized at the University of California.
2000 - NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
Births
1848 - Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer
1869 - Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1898 - Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-American physicist and astronomer
Deaths
1975 - Julian Huxley, British biologist
1989 - James Bond, American ornithologist
2003 - Dolly, first cloned mammal
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