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