Events
1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
1972 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.
Births
1775 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician
1886 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist
1906 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1773 - George Edwards, English naturalist
1878 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician
1916 - Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1968 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, Nobel Prize laureate
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1704 - Birth of Louis Godin, French astronomer
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1867 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer
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1814 - Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist
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