* Astronomy

Yevgeni Vassilyevich Khrunov (September 10, 1933 - May 19, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 5/Soyuz 4 mission. Read more

A total solar eclipse occurred on September 10, 1923. The path of totality crossed the Pacific Ocean, northwestern and northern Mexico, Yucatan peninsula, Belize. Read more

Richard Michael "Mike" Mullane (born September 10, 1945) is a retired USAF officer and a former NASA astronaut, flying on three Space Shuttle missions. Read more

Lilian Suzette Gibbs (1870-1925) was a British botanist who worked for the British Museum in London. She was the first woman and the first botanist to ascend Mount Kinabalu in February 1910. Read more

Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH, CIE, MC, FBA, FSA (10 September 1890 - 22 July 1976), was one of the best-known British archaeologists of the twentieth century. Read more

Carl Gustaf Mosander (Kalmar 10 September 1797 - Lovön, Stockholm County 15 October 1858) was a Swedish chemist. He discovered the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium. Read more

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation. Read more

Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892 - March 15, 1962) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery of the Compton effect. He served as Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1945 to 1953. Read more

On 10 September 1784 Edward Pigott detected the variability of Eta Aquilae, then known as "Eta Antinoi", and the first known representative of a class of variable stars later called Delta Cephei stars or, perhaps somewhat misleadingly, "Cepheids". This discovery occurre...

The 1509 Constantinople earthquake, referred to as "The Lesser Judgment Day" by contemporaries, was an earthquake that occurred in the Sea of Marmara on September 10, 1509 at about 10 p.m.. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.2 ± 0.3 on the surface wave magnitude scale. Forty...

The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, on the banks of the River Esk near Musselburgh, Scotland on 10 September 1547, was part of the conflict known as the Rough Wooing. It was the last pitched battle between Scottish and English armies, and is seen as the first modern battle in the British Isles. It was a catastr...

A partial solar eclipse occurred on September 10, 1942. Read more

A partial solar eclipse occurred on September 10, 1942. Read more

Uranometria 2000.0, Vol. 2: The Southern Hemisphere to Plus 6 Degrees Read more Uranometria 2000.0 Volume 1 - The Northern Hemisphere to Minus 6 Degrees [url=http://www.amazon.com/Ura...

Ancient monuments found in forest reserve Around 115 archaeological monuments have been identified by the Archaeological Department within the Lahugala Forest Reserve during research carried out centred on the Neelagiriya Stupa, Archaeological Department sources said. [url=http://www...

India's space agency, readying for a mission to the moon, is also planning to launch a satellite, Aditya, to study the sun, parliament was informed Wednesday. "Aditya will carry an instrument intended to study the outmost region of the sun, called corona. It will also study the coronal mass e...