William "Bill" Alison Anders (born October 17, 1933) is a former United States Air Force officer, NASA astronaut and businessman. He is, along with Apollo 8 crewmates Frank Borman and Jim Lovell, one of the first three persons to have left Earth orbit and traveled to the Moon (of only 24 pe...
Paul Isaac Bernays (17 October 1888, London - 18 September 1977, Zurich) was a Swiss mathematician, who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics. He was an assistant and close collaborator of David Hilbert. Read more
The University of Greifswald was founded on 17 October 1456 with the approval of the Holy Roman Empire and the Pope. This was possible due to the great commitment of Greifswald's lord mayor, Heinrich Rubenow, who was also to become the university's first rector, with the support of Duke Wartislaw IX...
The Game of the Century usually refers to a chess game played between Donald Byrne and 13-year-old Bobby Fischer in the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York City on October 17, 1956, which Fischer won. It was nicknamed "The Game of the Century" by Hans Kmoch in Chess Review. Kmoch wro...
Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have proposed a recipe for turning ultracold "boson" atoms - the ingredients of Bose-Einstein condensates - into a "supersolid," a...
Flying ant day 'a summer myth' The notion of an annual flying ant day, when swarms of ants emerge and take to the air in mass mating flights, is a "myth", scientists say. UK summer data gathered by the Society of Biology shows two peaks in flying ant appearances over one fortnight. [url=http...
The Fayetteville-Manlius High School observatory and planetarium will be opened Saturday night to the public for a program to raise money for a foundation that supports the F-M district. The event will run from 6:30 to 10 p.m. at the high school. [url=http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2...
Hurricane Paul is forecast to make landfall in Mexico probability for CAT 1 or above is 70% in about 10 hours La Poza (25.9 N, 112.0 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 10 hours probability for TS is 75% in about 10 hours The hurricane is currently located at 21...
Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992. Read more
Freimut Börngen (born October 17, 1930) is a German astronomer. He has studied galaxies with the Schmidt telescope at the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory in Tautenburg, Germany. In 1995 he retired, but continues to work as a freelancer for the observatory. As a by-product of his work, he has disco...
The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is celebrated every year on October 17 throughout the world. It was officially recognised by the United Nations in 1992, but the first commemoration of the event took place in Paris, France, in 1987 when 100,000 people gathered on the Human Right...
The London Tornado of 1091 is reckoned by modern assessment of the reports as possibly a T8 tornado (roughly equal to an F4 tornado) which occurred in London, England. Britain's earliest reported tornado, it occurred on 17 October 1091, killing two. Read more
The Loma Prieta earthquake, also known as the Quake of '89 and the World Series Earthquake, was a major earthquake that struck the San Francisco Bay Area of California on October 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. local time. Read more
Calder Hall was the world's first nuclear power station to deliver electricity in commercial quantities (although the 5 MW "semi-experimental" reactor at Obninsk in the Soviet Union was connected to the public supply in 1954). First connection to the grid was on 27 August 1956, and the...
