Events
1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
1880 - Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
2004 - The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the universe’s largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093.
Births
1672 - Ãtienne François Geoffroy, French chemist
1743 - Joseph Banks, English botanist and naturalist
1910 - William Shockley, American physicist, eugenicist and Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1787 - RuÄer BoÅ¡koviÄ, Croatian scientist
2005 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist
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1633 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
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