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1969 - Apollo Program: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon.
1976 - The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9’s Fragment Q1 hits Jupiter.
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1797 - Sir PaweÅ Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist
1822 - Gregor Mendel, father of modern genetics
1897 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1909 - Jean Focas, Greco-French astronomer
1947 - Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
Deaths
1937 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics
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