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Events

1909 - Ernest Shackleton’s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.

2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107. It disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.

Births

1477 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (above)

1838 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist

1875 - Leonor Michaelis, German biochemist

1932 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist

Deaths

1547 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (above)

1856 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist

1967 - Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist

2006 - Stanley Biber, American physician

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