Events

1962 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.

1972 - The United States launches Landsat 1, first Earth-resources satellite.

Births

1775 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician

1886 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist

1906 - Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths

1773 - George Edwards, English naturalist

1878 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, Bohemian physician

1916 - Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

1968 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, Nobel Prize laureate