Events
648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
1965 - Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
1973 - Launch of Pioneer 11 (current position above)
Births
1613 - Stjepan GradiÄ, Croatian philosopher and scientist
1851 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer
1911 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1920 - Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1928 - James D. Watson, American geneticist, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1949 - Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1829 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician
1838 - José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman and geologist
1961 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1963 - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer