Inventor Alan Clark was granted his patent for the telescope.
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Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe witnessed the supernova SN 1572.
German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time.
Christopher Columbus discovered Sint Maarten in the West Indies.
NASA launched the Gemini program's tenth and final crewed spacecraft, Gemini 12.
The first college fraternity, The Flat Hat Society, was formed in the Raleigh Tavern at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
