1997 Event Galileo, Ganymede Observations, Orbit 9 1972 Event U.S. launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998) 1747 Death Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives, dies in Paris 1715 Birthday Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives 1674 Death Charles de Mean, Belgian lawyer (Observations), dies at 69 1648 Birthday Gregory King, English statistician, Natural and Political Observations 1601 Birthday Georges de Scudery, French writer, Observations sur le Cid 1514 Event Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
