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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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