Sir John Ross, CB, (24 June 1777 - 30 August 1856) was a Scottish rear admiral and Arctic explorer. Sir John was the uncle of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, who explored the Arctic with him, and later led expeditions to the south pole. Read more
During the Inca Empire, the Inti Raymi was the most important of four ceremonies celebrated in Cusco, as related by Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. The celebration took place in the Haukaypata or the main plaza in the city. The Inti Raymi ("Festival of the Sun") was a religious ceremony of the In...
Ellison Shoji Onizuka (Onizuka Shoji?, June 24, 1946 - January 28, 1986) was a Japanese American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C, before losing his life to the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, whe...
Martin Lewis Perl (born June 24, 1927 in New York) is an American physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 for his discovery of the tau lepton. Read more
British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to by its callsign Speedbird 9 or Jakarta incident, was a scheduled British Airways flight from London Heathrow to Auckland. On 24 June 1982, the route was flown by the City of Edinburgh, a 747-236B. On the third leg of the flight (from Madras to Kuala Lump...
A colleague of the late Sir Fred Hoyle says his friend never got his due for explaining how the universe got its elements Sir Fred Hoyle, the late astrophysicist acclaimed for developing the theory of how stars forge hydrogen and helium into the heavier elements found throughout the universe, did no...
STS 51-G was the eighteenth flight of a space shuttle, and the fifth flight of Discovery. The mission launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 17 June 1985. Sultan Salman Al Saud of Saudi Arabia was on board as a payload specialist. All the experiments were successfully accomplished. Disco...
The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting was an incident on June 24, 1947, where private pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted a string of nine, shiny, mostly disc-like unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at then unheard of supersonic speeds that Arnold clocked at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour....
'Green fireball' streaks across sky 'A Green fireball' streaked across the sky above Beaconsfield on Friday night, according to motorist Graham Lee. The freelance photographer thinks he might have seen a meteor while driving home on the M40 and discovered several others had reported the sightin...
A SL-8 rocket body that was launched on the 18th June, 1974, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, for the KOSMOS 660 satellite missions is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 22nd June, 2012 @ 14:00 GMT ± 48 hours.SL-8 RB
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André Tacquet (23 June 1612 Antwerp - 22 December 1660 Antwerp) was a Flemish mathematician and Jesuit Priest. His work prepared ground for the eventual discovery of the calculus. Read more
Dr Helen Geake is one of the key members of Channel 4's popular and long-running archaeology series Time Team, presented by Tony Robinson, along with Mick Aston and Phil Harding. She is a cousin of the late John E Geake, for whom the asteroid 9298 Geake is named. Read more
Rio summit ends with warning on corporate power The UN sustainable development summit in Brazil has ended with world leaders adopting a political declaration hammered out a few days previously. Environment and development charities say the Rio+20 agreement is too weak to tackle social and envi...
Pre-historic human skeleton discovered in Sri Lanka Archaeology Department of Sri Lanka has found a skeleton of a pre-historic man from the Fa-Hien cave archaeological site in Pahiyangala of Kalutara district. The skeleton is believed to be about 12,000 years old and belonged to the Homo sapien...
