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2002 - Near earth asteroid 2002 MN misses our planet by 75,000 miles (120,000 km) about one third the distance to the moon. EVERYBODY PANIC!
Births
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Deaths
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1941 - Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist
1971 - Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
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