Events
1860 - The discovery of the planet Vulcan is announced at a meeting of the Académie des Sciences
1959 - Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched
2004 - Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that it will return to Earth two years later.
Deaths
1893 - John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist
1917 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist
2005 - Maclyn McCarty, American geneticist
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