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- 1811 - August Emanuel von Reuss was born in Bílina, Czech Republic.
- 1836 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at St. Helena.
- 2001 - Jia Lanpo died in Beijing, China.
2015 - David C. Evans and Michael J. Ryan described the new genus and species of ceratopsid Wendiceratops pinhornensis from the Campanian Oldman Formation of Alberta, Canada.
Jorge Cubo and others reported the first evidence of biomechanically adaptive bone modeling in non-avian dinosaurs from the limb bones of Maiasaura specimens of different ages. Their find provided more evidence that this hadrosaur hatched as a biped and gradually transitioned to walking on all fours as it grew.