Events
1962 - Mariner 2 launched to Venus.
2003 - Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing approximately 34,646,416 miles (55,758,006 kilometers) from Earth.
Births
1874 - Carl Bosch, Nobel Prize laureate
1915 - Norman F. Ramsey, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1909 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist
1958 - Ernest Lawrence, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate