Events
1879 - The United States Geological Survey is created.
Births
1918 - Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1703 - Robert Hooke, English scientist
1765 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist
1988 - Sewall Wright, American evolutionary biologist
1999 - Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate