2014 Event NASA announces that its Kepler space telescope has discovered 715 planets in other solar systems, bringing the instrument's new-planet tally to 961; four of the latest discoveries are thought to have an orbit favorable to habitation, but the distance of these planets makes exploration impossible with current technology 1900 Event 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession 1894 Death Antoine J "Adolphe" Sax, instrument maker (saxophone), dies at 79 1859 Death Louis Poinsot, French mathematician/instrument maker, dies at 82 1830 Death Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker, dies at 59 1791 Birthday Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder 1777 Birthday Louis Poinsot, French instrument worker 1770 Birthday Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker
