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1976 -Viking 2 lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.
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1710 - Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist
1869 - Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and Nobel laureate
1899 - Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist and Nobel laureate
1905 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist and Nobel laureate
1907 - Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist
1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist and Nobel laureate
Deaths
2005 - Richard S.R. Fitter, British ornithologist and botanist
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