Events
1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1966 - Venera 3 crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet.
1980 - Voyager 1 probe confirms that Janus (moon of Saturn) exists.
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1943 - Richard H. Price, American physicist
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Deaths
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1911 - Jacobus Henricus van ’t Hoff, Dutch chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1966 - Fritz Houtermans, German physicist
1995 - Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist and Nobel Prize laureate
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