Events
1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine.
1967 - A transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
1973 - Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
1999 - NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
Births
1776 - Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist
1838 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist
1842 - Ellen Swallow Richards, American scientist
1886 - Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
1900 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian-German biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate
1933 - Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1993 - Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist