Events
1667 - The first human blood transfusion is administered by Jean-Baptiste Denys.
1752 - Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity.
2002 - Near earth asteroid 2002 MN misses our planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km) about one third the distance to the moon. EVERYBODY PANIC!
Births
1755 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy, French chemist
1915 - Thomas Huckle Weller, American virologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1917 - John Fenn, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1917 - Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist
1941 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist
1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
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1936 - The last surviving thylacine dies at the Hobart Zoo.
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1977 - Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched
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1625 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician, and physicist