* Astronomy

Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts in the United States, was a remarkable achiever. Juliette Gordon was born in Savannah, Georgia on Halloween (October 31) in 1860. On Jan. 17, 1927, Juliette Gordon Low died of cancer in Savannah, at the age of sixty-six. Read more[spoiler][video=h...

Paul Frampton (born 31 October 1943) is a particle phenomenologist. Since 1996, he is the Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Distinguished Professor of physics and astronomy, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. He is also Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator at the U.S. Department of Ener...

Charles Leroux (born as Joseph Johnson; 31 October 1856 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States - 24 September [O.S. 12 September] 1889 in Reval, Estonia) was an American balloonist and parachutist. He died on his 239th jump after water landing in the Bay of Reval (now Tallinn), Estonia. Monumen...

Professor Robert Cousins to speak Nov. 8 about search for elusive Higgs boson Robert Cousins, a UCLA distinguished professor of physics, will present "The Search for the Higgs Boson: Observation and Interpretation," a free UCLA Science Faculty Research Colloquium about one of the la...

With the opening of the new Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) observatory on its grounds on Tuesday, Oct. 23, the Arboretum officially entered the stargazing business. The observatory project, complete with a 14-inch robotic, research-grade telescope, is a joint initiative between...

Telescope Star-Gazing Offered At Fairfax SRA, Nov. 13 Monroe Lake will hold a telescope star-gazing event on Tuesday, Nov. 13, at Fairfax State Recreation Area. Read more

Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass (October 31, 1815 - February 19, 1897) was a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis". Read more

The Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 (October 29 - November 1, 1876) was one of the deadliest cyclones in history. It hit the coast of Backerganj (near Meghna estuary) in present-day Barisal, Bangladesh, killing about 200,000 people, half of whom were drowned by the storm surge, and the remainder d...

China plans to launch its third manned space mission in October during which the country's astronauts are to undertake their first ever space walk, the state media reported today. Three astronauts aboard the spacecraft Shenzhou VIII are expected to attempt Chinas first space walk during the upco...

Soyuz TM-31 was Russian passenger transportation spacecraft launched by a Soyuz-U rocket at 07:52 UT on October 31, 2000. Read more

Just a wee note to say sorry for the lack of updates, but i was celebrating the pagan festival of Samhain. :smile:

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Galileo Ferraris (31 October 1847 - 7 February 1897) was an Italian physicist and electrical engineer, noted mostly for the studies and independent discovery of the rotating magnetic field, a basic working principle of the induction motor. Read more

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan (31 October 1828 - 27 May 1914) was a British physicist and chemist, most famous for the invention of the incandescent light bulb for which he received the first patent in 1878. Read more

Narinder Singh Kapany (born 12 October 1926 in Moga, Punjab) is an Indian born American physicist known for his work in fibre optics. Read more