January 14

Albert Schweitzer, the Alsatian theologian, organist and medical missionary known for 'reverence for life,' was born in Kaysersberg.

Anagarika Govinda, expositor of Tibetan Buddhism and founder of the Arya Maitreya Mandala order, died; his ashes were interred in a stupa near Darjeeling.

The European Space Agency's Huygens probe descended through the haze of Saturn's moon Titan and touched down on its surface, the most distant landing ever achieved by a spacecraft.