Abram Fedorovich (or Fyodorovich) Ioffe (29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1880 - 14 October 1960) was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labour (1955). Ioffe was an expert in electromagnetism,...
Fredric Brown (October 29, 1906 - March 11, 1972) was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Cincinnati. One of his most famous short stories, "Arena", was used as the basis for the episode of the same name in the original series of Star Trek. It was also the basis of a 1...
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss (born October 29, 1947) is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theatre roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Always...
The 1999 Orissa cyclone, also known as Cyclone 05B, and Paradip cyclone, was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean since the 1991 Bangladesh cyclone, and deadliest Indian storm since 1971. The Category Five storm made landfall just weeks after a category 4 storm hit the same general ar...
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A.D. 879. This year went the army from Chippenham to Cirencester, and sat there a year. The same year assembled a band of pirates, and sat at Fulham by the Thames. The same year also the sun was eclipsed one hour of the day. Read more Ed ~ This solar eclipse is probably the one...
Ancient tsunami devastated Lake Geneva shoreline In ad 563, more than a century after the Romans gave up control of what is now Geneva, Switzerland, a deadly tsunami on Lake Geneva poured over the city walls. Originating from a rock fall where the River Rhône enters at the opposite end of the lake to Ge...
Title: XMM-Newton observation of the very old pulsar J0108-1431 Authors: B. Posselt, P. Arumugasamy, G. G. Pavlov, R. N. Manchester, R. M. Shannon, O. Kargaltsev We report on an X-ray observation of the 166 Myr old radio pulsar J0108-1431 with XMM-Newton. The X-ray spectrum can be described by a po...
The Prospero satellite, also known as X-3, is the only satellite to be successfully launched by a British rocket on the 28th October, 1971. It has the COSPAR (NSSC ID) designation 1971-093A, and the US Space Command satellite catalogue number 05580. The satellite was originally to be called Puck, b...
A powerful geomagnetic storm hit the Earth on October 29, 2003, knocking out some airline communications but apparently causing no large power outages or other major problems. According to NASA, the storm, the most disruptive to hit Earth since 1989, was unleashed by the fourth-most powerful sol...
STS-95 was a Space Shuttle Discovery mission launched from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida on 29 October 1998. It was the 25th flight of Discovery and the 92nd mission flown since the start of the Space Shuttle program in April 1981. It was a highly publicised mission due to former Project Mercury astr...
30 Venezuelan scientists are going to China to begin work on Venezuela's first satellite - the first step on the way to a national space programme.
President Hugo Chavez has earmarked around £287million to get the space agency off the ground in 2007.
The scientists will be joined by another 60 ne...
Hurricane Mitch was the most powerful hurricane and the most destructive of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season, with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph (285 km/h). The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm, ninth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the season. Along with Hurricane Georges...
The Chinga meteorite was discovered in 1913 in Tanna Tuva, Turvinskaya, Russia, in the streambed of the Chinga River. The iron meteorite is classified as an Ataxite and contains 16% nickel content. Latitude: 51° 3' 30"N, Longitude: 94° 24' 0"E
'African Cosmos,' at National Museum of African Art "African Cosmos: Stellar Arts" at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art here, an exhibition packed with celestial bodies and patches of darkness sending forth light, invites comparable responses. Broadly it's a show ab...
Rare findings dating back to the 6th millennium B. C. have been dug out in Masis hill The excavation of 37 different monuments has been undertaken by the National Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia and the results are satisfying. [ur...
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