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Events
1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow & Charles Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
1997 – The comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to Earth.
Births
1868 – Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 – Burton Richter, American physicist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1772 – John Canton, English physicist
1840 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician
1924 – William Macewen, Scottish surgeon
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