Events
1964 - Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
1999 - Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector - NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon’s surface.
Births
1718 - John Canton, English physicist
1858 - Richard Dixon Oldham, British geologist
1860 - Mary Vaux Walcott, American artist and naturalist
1918 - Paul D. Boyer, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate
Deaths
1980 - Pascual Jordan, German physicist
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A mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) killed a human (Homo sapiens) in Washington. The human hiker was gored in the leg on Klahhane Ridge in Olympic National Park. The goat, previously identified as an aggressive wild animal, was summarily executed by park rangers.
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