Births
1678 - Jean Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist
1832 - Karl Rudolf König, German physicist
1898 - Karl Ziegler, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1904 - Armand Frappier, French-Canadian physician and microbiologist
1907 - Ruth Patrick, American botanist
1938 - Rodney Jory, Australian physicist
Deaths
1876 - Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist
1885 - Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist
1896 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician
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The 12-15th centuries are reckoned as Sweden's Middle Ages.
This quote comes to me from a pal who saw it on TV (there are days when I wish I had a TV, and today is one of those days, because this quote is priceless) ...
Events
2002 - The last successful telemetry from NASA space probe Pioneer 10.
Births
This sounds like it's got to be a spoof, but it's so weird it could also be true.