Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov (November 23, 1935 - June 30, 1971) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions. The second mission terminated fatally. Read more
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (23 November 1887 - 10 August 1915) was an English physicist. Moseley's outstanding contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of the atomic number. This stemmed from his development...
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (November 23, 1837 - March 8, 1923) was a Dutch theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on an equation of state for gases and liquids. Read more
Alfonso X (23 November 1221 - 4 April 1284) was a Castilian monarch who ruled as the King of Castile, León and Galicia from 1252 until his death. As an intellectual he gained considerable scientific fame based on his encouragement of astronomy, which included astrology at the time and the Ptolemaic c...
John Wallis (23 November 1616 - 28 October 1703) was an English mathematician who is given partial credit for the development of infinitesimal calculus. He is also credited with introducing the symbol for infinity. Asteroid 31982 Johnwallis was named after him. Read more
Today, as throughout history, many aspects of our lives are dominated by the weather our well-being and prosperity relies on it. The economic and social benefits of accurate weather forecasts are immense and include improved efficiencies in agricultural systems, optimised planning of transpo...
The 1980 Irpinia earthquake took place in the Irpinia region in Southern Italy on Sunday, November 23, 1980. Measuring 6.89 on the Richter Scale, the quake, centered on the village of Conza, killed 2,914 people, injured more than 10,000 and left 300,000 homeless. It is known in Italy as Terremoto de...
Thespis of Icaria (present-day Dionysos, Greece) (6th century BC), according to certain Ancient Greek sources and especially Aristotle, was the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor playing a character in a play (instead of speaking as him or herself). In other sources, he is said to have...
South Pacific Sandy Island 'proven not to exist' A South Pacific island, shown on marine charts and world maps as well as on Google Earth and Google Maps, does not exist, Australian scientists say. The supposedly sizeable strip of land, named Sandy Island on Google maps, was positioned midway betwe...
Debris from a SL-24 rocket body that was launched on the 29th July, 2009, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, for the DMC 2 satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 20th November, 2012 @ 05:17 GMT ± 5 hours.SL-24 DEB
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An ARIANE 5 rocket body that was launched on the 12th July, 2001, from Kourou, French Guiana, for the Artemis satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 21st November, 2012 @ 22:12 GMT ± 24 hours.ARIANE 5 RB
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Two-tonne Witch computer gets a reboot The world's oldest original working digital computer is going on display at The National Museum of Computing in Buckinghamshire. The Witch, as the machine is known, has been restored to clattering and flashing life in a three-year effort. [url=http://www....
