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||1965 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 189
||1965 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 189
||Katharine Burr Blodgett (d. October 12, 1979) was an American scientific researcher. She was the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cambridge, in 1926. After receiving her master's degree, she was hired by General Electric, where she invented low-reflectance "invisible" glass.


||1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
||1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.

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