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Events

1925 - John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution.

1961 - Apollo program: U.S. president John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the moon" before the end of the decade.

Births

1860 - James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist

1865 - Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1880 - Jean Alexandre Barré, French neurologist

1921 - Jack Steinberger, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1555 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer

1632 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher

1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist

1935 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer

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