Calendar of Science (sciencecalendar)
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Oct. 5, 1882-Birthday of engineer Robert Goddard, who built the first liquid-fuel rocket.
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Oct. 4, 1957-Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth.
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Oct. 4, 1957-Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth.
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Sept. 30, 1882-Birthday of physicist Hans Geiger, invented the radiation detector which is now called the Geiger counter.
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Sept. 29, 1954-The European Center for Nuclear Research(CERN) founded in Geneva. CERN physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.
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Sept. 26, 1754-Joseph-Louis Proust born, discovered elements in a compound always combine in a definite proportion by mass. "Proust's Law"
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Sept. 25, 1644-Birthday of astronomer Ole Roemer, 1st to measure the speed of light.
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Sept. 24, 1879-Birthday of physicist Georges Claude, who invented the neon light.
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Sept. 22, 1791-Birthday of physicist Michael Faraday, built 1st electric motor, 1st generator, 1st transformer.
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Sept. 21, 1866-Birthday of author H. G. Wells, who wrote many sci-fi stories, including The Time Machine and War of the Worlds.
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Sept. 20, 1519-Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain with 5 ships & about 260 men on 1st successful attempt to sail around the world.
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Sept. 19, 1848-Astronomers George Bond & William Lassell discovered Saturn's moon Hyperion. Largest non-spherical moon in the solar system.
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Sept. 17, 1857-Birthday of physicist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1st to propose that people could travel into space using rockets.
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Sept. 16, 1853-Birthday of biochemist Albrecht Kossel, discovered/named the 4 DNA nucleotides: adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine.
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Sept. 15, 1929-Birthday of physicist Murray Gell-Mann, proposed there was a fundamental particle of matter which he named the quark.
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Sept. 13, 1922-The world's highest temperature, 136.4 F was recorded at Al Aziziyah, Libya, 25 miles south of Tripoli.
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Sept. 12, 1940-French schoolboys exploring the Lascaux Cave discovered 17,000 yr old paintings depicting variety of prehistoric animals.
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Sept. 11, 1997-The Mars Global Surveyor went into orbit around Mars, took photos of entire surface of Mars.
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Sept. 9, 1892-Astronomer Edward Barnard discovered Jupiter's moon Amalthea.
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Sept. 8, 2004-The NASA spacecraft Genesis returned to Earth with samples of solar wind particles.
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