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A tiny sunspot has emerged over the Suns eastern limb

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Major Harold C. Geiger (October 7, 1884 - May 17, 1927), born in East Orange, New Jersey, was a pioneer in US military aviation and ballooning who was killed in an airplane crash in 1927. Spokane International Airport is designated with the International Air Transport Association airport code GEG i...

The McCollum memo, also known as the Eight Action Memo was a memorandum, dated October 7, 1940 (more than a year before the Pearl Harbour attack), sent by Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum. The memo illustrates several people in the Office of Naval Intelligence promoted the idea of goading J...

Uppsala University (Swedish: Uppsala universitet) is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the oldest university in Sweden, founded in 1477. It ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings and is generally considered one of the most prestigious ins...

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Niels Henrik David Bohr (7 October 1885 - 18 November 1962) was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Niels Bohr was a goalkeeper in the Danish team Akademisk Boldklu...

Sir Harold (Harry) Walter Kroto, FRS (born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner - 30 April 2016) was a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley. Read more [spoiler][video=http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Kunchi, also Nagasaki Kunchi or Nagasaki Okunchi, is the most famous festival in Nagasaki, Japan. It began as a celebration of autumn harvests in the late 16th century and became a shrine festival when Suwa Shrine was founded in 1642. Another purpose was to check for hidden Christians after the ban o...

On October 7, 1958, T. Keith Glennan, the first administrator of NASA, approved the Mercury project. Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States. It ran from 1959 through 1963 with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the Earth. Read more

Luna 3 - First Images of the Moon's Far Side, 1959 Click to Play | View Details

Multiwavelength AGN Surveys and Studies 7-10th October, 2012. Byurakan, Armenia IAU Symposium 304 is dedicated to B.E. Markarian's 100th anniversary. Read more

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