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;# Dates related to events in aviation, astronomy and space exploration
;# Today in History dates provided by Robert Heckendorn at
;# Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado.
;# Any corrections or additions may be sent to robert@fc.hp.com
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;# Additional dates provided from ProLine's today file
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;# Converted to calentool format by Larry Virden (lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu)
;# and RPC Rodgers, UCSF, Nov 1988
;# and further edited and merged by Bill Randle (billr@saab.cna.tek.com).
;# Some duplicates may exist where I haven't been able to verify which
;# one is correct.
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00000104 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
00000105 NASA announces development of Space Shuttle (1972)%i19720105
00000105 Salyut 4, crew of 2, launched for 30 day mission (1975)%i19750105
00000109 1st balloon flight in North America. (1793)%i17930109
00000110 First radar contact with Moon (1946)%i19460110
00000110 Venera 6 launched toward Venus (1969)%i19690110
00000110 World airplane altitude record set (4,165 ft) at first international air show in LA (1910)%i19100110
00000111 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to solo fly across the Pacific when she flies from Honolulu to Oakland (1935)%i19350111
00000111 Soyuz 27 links up with Soyuz 26 and the orbiting space station Salyut 6 making the first time that three space craft are linked (1978)%i19780111
00000111 Uranian moons Titania and Oberon discovered by William Herschel (1787)%i17870111
00000113 Apollo 14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly??) (1971)%i19710113
00000114 Soyuz 4 launched (1968)%i19680114
00000115 Soyuz 5 launched (1968)%i19680115
00000117 Hermes rocket launched by ESA (1976)%i19760117
00000117 Soyuz 4 & 5 complete first docking of 2 manned spacecraft (1968)%i19680117
00000118 Eugene B. Ely makes the first landing of an aircraft on a ship when he lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Harbor (1911)%i19110118
00000121 Neptune becomes the outermost planet (Pluto moves closer). (1979)%i19790121
00000122 Apollo 5 launched to Moon, unmanned lunar module tests (1968)%i19680122
00000124 Voyager 2 encounters Uranus. Efforts will be made during the trip to Neptune to improve ground receiver sensitivity enough to allow data rates equal to the Uranus passage (4800 - 21600 bps) (1986)%i19860124
00000124 51-C Discovery launched; first DoD mission (1985)%i19850124
00000125 1st transcontinental commercial jet flight (LA to NY for $301). (1959)%i19590125
00000125 Echo 2, first joint US/USSR satellite (1964)%i19640125
00000127 Grissom, Chaffee & White die in Apollo 1 fire during a simulated launch (1967)%i19670127
00000128 Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes 73s after liftoff (1986)%i19860128
00000129 41- (STS-11) Challenger launched (1984)%i19840129
00000130 US/Canada launch ISIS 1 to study ionosphere (1969)%i19690130
00000131 Apollo 14 launched toward Moon (1971)%i19710131
00000131 First US satellite (Explorer I) launched, Van Allen Belt discovered (1958)%i19580131
00000131 Ham is first primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2 (1961)%i19610131
00000131 James van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt (1958)%i19580131
00000131 Luna 9 launched for Moon (1966)%i19660131
00000202 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the 1st time in 400 years. (1962)%i19620202
00000203 First rocket assisted controlled landing on the moon; by the Soviet Luna IX (1966)%i19660203
00000203 Luna 9 first craft to softland on Moon (1966)%i19660203
00000205 Apollo 14 lands on Moon (1971)%i19710205
00000205 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are in conjunction during this Pacific eclipse (1962)%i19620205
00000206 The Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is successfully test fired for the first time (1959)%i19590206
00000207 Bruce McCandless makes first untethered space walk (1984)%i19840207
00000208 Astronauts return after 85 days in Skylab (1974)%i19740208
00000209 Halley's Comet reaches perihelion (1986)%i19860209
00000209 the Boeing 747 takes it's 1st commercial flight. (1969)%i19690209
00000210 The great comet disappeared from view. Most were terrified by it but it aided Newton in the study of parabolic orbits (1680)%i16800210
00000211 Japan becomes fourth nation to launch artificial satellite (1970)%i19700211
00000214 Luna 20 launched to orbit & land on Moon (1972)%i19720214
00000218 Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto from the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff (1930)%i19300218
00000220 John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule (1962)%i19620220
00000223 A supernoval explosion is first observed in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The last local supernova was in 1604 (1987)%i19870223
00000224 Discovery of first pulsar announced (1968)%i19680224
00000224 Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby (1969)%i19690224
00000228 First polar orbiting satellite, Discoverer 1, launched (1959)%i19590228
00000301 Venera 3, first probe to land on Venus (1966)%i19660301
00000302 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby (1972)%i19720302
00000304 Pioneer 4 makes first US lunar flyby (1959)%i19590304
00000305 Voyager 1 encounters Jupiter and discovers rings (1979)%i19790305
00000309 First dog recovered from space orbit (1961)%i19610309
00000309 Yuri Gagarin, 1st man into space (1934)%i19340309
00000310 Halley's Comet passes back across the ecliptic (1986)%i19860310
00000310 Uranus' rings discovered (1977)%i19770310
00000313 William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus by accident while studying the constellation Gemini. (1781)%i17810313
00000315 Pluto again becomes the outermost planet. (1999)%i19990315
00000316 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket (1926)%i19260316
00000317 Vanguard I launched, proved Earth is pear-shaped (1958)%i19580317
00000318 first walk in space by Russian Lieutenant-Colonel Leonev (1965)%i19650318
00000320 The celebration of the first complete revolution of Uranus since its discovery (1865)%i18650320
00000323 First photograph of Moon (1840)%i18400323
00000323 Gemini 3 launched, completes 3 Earth orbits (1965)%i19650323
00000324 British flyer survives 18,000-foot fall without a parachute, suffers broken ankle (1944)%i19440324
00000325 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan (1655)%i16550325
00000327 Gagarin and Seryogin die in aircraft accident (1968)%i19680327
00000327 Palla (asteroid) discovered by Heinrich Olbers (1802)%i18020327
00000327 Vest (asteroid) discovered by Olbers (1807)%i18070327
00000328 Yuri Gagarin is killed in a plane crash (1968)%i19680328
00000330 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to make solo crossing of the Atlantic. (1932)%i19320330
00000330 Five rings around Uranus discovered (1977)%i19770330
00000331 Luna 10 launched to Moon (1966)%i19660331
00000401 TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red Observation Satellite) launched to improve weather prediction (1960)%i19600401
00000401 US/Canada ISIS II launched to study the ionosphere (1971)%i19710401
00000403 Soviet Union announces success of Luna 10, first spacecraft to achieve lunar orbit (1966)%i19660403
00000404 (Unmanned) Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V (1968)%i19680404
00000404 First flight of space shuttle Challenger (1983)%i19830404
00000404 Maiden voyage of STS Challenger (1983)%i19830404
00000405 ATS II launched but failed to reach orbit (1967)%i19670405
00000405 USSR Salyut 4 launched, fails to reach orbit, lands off course in snowstorm and rolls down a ravine; lines snag, saving lives of both cosmonauts (1975)%i19750405
00000406 4 planes take off on 1st successful around-the-world flight. (1926)%i19260406
00000406 First Intelsat (Early Bird) launched (1965)%i19650406
00000406 Liftoff of Challenger 41C (1984)%i19840406
00000406 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter & Saturn (1973)%i19730406
00000407 STS-6 mission specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform first spacewalk (1983)%i19830407
00000408 (Unmanned) Gemini 1 launched (1964)%i19640408
00000409 First 7 astronauts presented to press: Shepard, Glenn, Cooper, Schirra, Grissom, Carpenter and Slayton (1959)%i19590409
00000409 The space shuttle Challenger ended its first mission with a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California (1983)%i19830409
00000409 Two cosmonauts launched in Salyut 6; 185 day mission (1980)%i19800409
00000410 The maiden launch of the space shuttle Columbia was scrubbed (1981)%i19810410
00000411 Apollo 13 Moon launch: Lovell, Haise, Swigert (1970)%i19700411
00000411 Celestial mechanics "Pinky" Nelson and "Ox" van Hoffen repair Solar Max satellite during 7 hour EVA in payload bay (1984)%i19840411
00000411 Halley's Comet closest to earth (1986)%i19860411
00000412 1st launch of the space shuttle, Columbia. (1981)%i19810412
00000412 Launch of Discover (STS-16) 51-D; Bobko, Williams, Garn, Griggs, Seddon, Hoffman, Walker (1985)%i19850412
00000412 Yuri A. Gagarin makes the first manned orbital flight (1961)%i19610412
00000413 Apollo 13 oxygen tank ruptures, destroying service module and aborting lunar landing (1970)%i19700413
00000414 Maiden Voyage of STS-1 into orbit: Young and Crippen (1981)%i19810414
00000416 Apollo 16 launched, 5th lunar landing at Descartes Highlands: Young, Mattingly, Duke (1972)%i19720416
00000416 Columbia returns (1981)%i19810416
00000417 Apollo 13 crew returns safely to Earth (1970)%i19700417
00000417 India enters space age, launching SLV-3 rocket (1983)%i19830417
00000417 Jerrie Mock became the 1st wolman to complete a solo flight around the world (1964)%i19640417
00000418 "Clipper" starts providing regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu (1936)%i19360418
00000419 Discovery returns, blowing tire on landing (1985)%i19850419
00000419 Halley's Comet becomes visible to the naked eye (1910)%i19100419
00000419 USSR Salyut 1 launched; first manned lab in orbit (1971)%i19710419
00000419 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit (1982)%i19820419
00000420 American Harold Graham makes first rocket belt flight (1961)%i19610420
00000420 Canadian ANIK A2 became first commercial satellite in orbit (1973)%i19730420
00000420 Soyuz T-8 launched; mission aborted when capsule fails to dock with Salyut station (1983)%i19830420
00000420 The manned lunar module of Apollo 16 landed on the moon (1972)%i19720420
00000421 Apollo 16 Astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke explore the moon's surface (1972)%i19720421
00000421 Lyrid meteor shower
00000423 Advisory council for Aeronautics becomes National Advisory Council on Aeronautic, or NACA (1915)%i19150423
00000423 First Soviet communications satelite launched (1965)%i19650423
00000423 USSR Soyus 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes first cosomonaut to make 2 flights (1967)%i19670423
00000424 China becomes 5th nation to launch artificial satellite (1970)%i19700424
00000424 Hubble Space Telescope, ferried aboard space shuttle Discovery lifted off at 8:33 A.M. from Kennedy Space Center (1990)%i19900424
00000425 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifts off with electronic mannequin; when inertial guidance system fails 40 seconds after launch, rocket destroyed by range safety officer (1961)%i19610425
00000426 US/UK launches Ariel, first International payload (1962)%i19620426
00000503 America's 1st passenger flight (New York-Atlantic City) (1919)%i19190503
00000505 Alan Shepard becomes first American in Space in Freedom 7; 15 min sub-orbital flight (1961)%i19610505
00000505 next conjunction of Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn (2000)%i20000505
00000506 The Hindenburg, a hydrogen filled zeppelin over 800 feet long, explodes during mooring in Lakehurst, NJ. Only 36 of the 98 aboard were killed. (1937)%i19370506
00000507 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles). (1963)%i19630507
00000509 Admiral Byrd first to fly over the North Pole (1926)%i19260509
00000513 Soviet cosmonauts Berezovoi and Lebedev depart Baikonur Cosmodrome to begin 211 days in space, most of them aboard Salyut-7 space statio (1982)%i19820513
00000514 United States launches space station "Skylab". (1973)%i19730514
00000515 The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 3. (1958)%i19580515
00000515 last of the Mercury flights, the 'Faith 7', launched. (1963)%i19630515
00000516 Gordon Cooper completes 22 Earth orbits in Faith 7 (1963)%i19630516
00000517 NASA launches first synchronous Meteorological satellite SMS-1. (1974)%i19740517
00000518 Halley's Comet was seen from earth to move across the sun (1910)%i19100518
00000518 Launch of Apollo 10 to rehearse lunar landing: Cernan, Stafford, and Young (1969)%i19690518
00000520 The first regular transatlantic passenger service begins with Pan Am (1939)%i19390520
00000520 US launches Pioneer Venus 1, produces first global radar map of Venus (1978)%i19780520
00000524 Scott Carpenter orbits the earth three times. Only the second American to achieve Earth orbit. (1962)%i19620524
00000525 American Airlines DC-10 crashes taking off from O'Hare. 275 killed highest death toll to date in aviation history. (1979)%i19790525
00000525 Arthur C. Clark proposes the placement of relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit (1945)%i19450525
00000525 Pres. John Kennedy declares landing a man on the Moon to be national objective (1961)%i19610525
00000525 US launches first Skylab crew: Kerwin, Conrad, Weit (1973)%i19730525
00000525 USSR launches Mars 3 to Mars (1971)%i19710525
00000528 Astromonkeys "Able" & "Baker" zoom 300 miles into space on Jupiter missle (1959)%i19590528
00000530 Mariner 9 launched; first craft to orbit Mars (1971)%i19710530
00000531 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilitie (1955)%i19550531
00000602 Surveyor 1 makes first US lunar soft landing (1966)%i19660602
00000602 the Donati Comet 1st seen, named after it's discoverer. (1858)%i18580602
00000603 200 inch Hale telescope dedicated (1948)%i19480603
00000603 First U.S. space walk, Edward White, Gemini 4. (1965)%i19650603
00000603 US launches Gemini 9 (1966)%i19660603
00000605 The Montgolfiers make first ascent in hot air balloon. It lasts 10 minutes (1783)%i17830605
00000606 First human visit to space station; USSR Soyuz 1 (1971)%i19710606
00000606 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with 'angry alligator', (Agena with undetached launch shroud): Stafford and Cernan (1966)%i19660606
00000606 transit of Venus (between Earth and Sun) occurs. (2012)%i20120606
00000607 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbit (1965)%i19650607
00000608 Soviets launch Venera 9 to Venus (1975)%i19750608
00000608 next transit of Venus across the sun (2004)%i20040608
00000609 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design (1931)%i19310609
00000613 Pioneer 10 spacecraft flies past Neptune (1983)%i19830613
00000613 Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut. (1963)%i19630613
00000614 1st direct airplane crossing of the Atlantic. (1919)%i19190614
00000614 England will witness a total eclipse of the sun (2051)%i20510614
00000614 Launch of Mariner 5 for Venus flyby (1967)%i19670614
00000614 Launch of Venera 10 to Venus (1975)%i19750614
00000614 Pioneer 10 spacecraft leaves the solar system (1983)%i19830614
00000615 USAF launches first "Big Bird" reconnaissance satellites
00000616 Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space (1963)%i19630616
00000618 First U.S. woman in space, Sally Ride, space shuttle Challenger. (1983)%i19830618
00000619 Andrian Nikolayev and Vitalii Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz (1970)%i19700619
00000620 Test flight of first rocket plane using liquid propellant (1939)%i19390620
00000622 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit, by Space Shuttle. (1983)%i19830622
00000622 Bright comet with fan shaped tail observed over London for a couple of days (1881)%i18810622
00000622 Charon, moon of Pluto, discovered by James Christ (1978)%i19780622
00000624 Flying Saucers sighted (1947)%i19470624
00000624 Jean-Loup Chretien, first spacionaut, lifts off with two cosmonauts for an eight day visit to the Salyut 7 space station (1982)%i19820624
00000625 5 Canterbury monks report something exploding on the Moon (only known observation) (1178)%i11780625
00000626 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, launched (1978)%i19780626
00000627 NASA X-15 flies at 4105 mph (1962)%i19620627
00000628 in Hawaii, the 1st inter-island flight. (1918)%i19180628
00000629 All three members of the crew of the Soyuz II space capsule were killed during re-entry over the U.S.S.R. (1971)%i19710629
00000629 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 d (1971)%i19710629
00000629 first flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii. (1927)%i19270629
00000630 a giant fireball impacts in Central Siberia (the Tunguska Event). (1908)%i19080630
00000702 1st flight of a Zeppelin (the LZ-1). (1900)%i19000702
00000702 Aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the Pacific while attempting to make 1st flight at equator (1937)%i19370702
00000702 Giotto launched to rendevous with Halley's Comet (1985)%i19850702
00000703 Starstruck, Inc. launchs dolphin rocket off San Clemente Island (1984)%i19840703
00000704 Hanna Reitsch pilots first successful helicopter flight, in Bremen Germany (1937)%i19370704
00000704 Telegraph Hill Observatory opens. (1882)%i18820704
00000704 brightest known super-nova starts shining, for 23 days. (1054)%i10540704
00000705 Mariner 5 flies by Mars (1967?)
00000706 Soviets launch Titov in Vostok 2: 17 orbits, 25h 18m (1961)%i19610706
00000707 Apollo 15 returns after 12d 7h 11 m 53 s (1971)%i19710707
00000708 Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus (1978)%i19780708
00000709 Voyager II flies past Jupiter. (1979)%i19790709
00000710 Bell Telephone's Telstar I is launched becoming the first private telecommunications satellite (1962)%i19620710
00000710 Orbiter 1 launched toward Moon (1966)%i19660710
00000711 1st transatlantic TV transmission via satellite (Telstar I). (1962)%i19620711
00000711 Cosmonaut Micolaev sets record for longest space flight, 4 d (1962)%i19620711
00000711 Skylab returns to earth showering debris over the Indian Ocean and Australia (1979)%i19790711
00000712 Cosmonaught Popovich enters space; first time 2 manned craft in space simultaneously (1962)%i19620712
00000712 Echo I, first passive satellite launched (1960)%i19600712
00000712 First free flight test of Enterprise (1977)%i19770712
00000712 USSR's Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs (1960)%i19600712
00000714 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii. (1927)%i19270714
00000714 First craft to fly by Mars, Mariner 4 (1965)%i19650714
00000715 US/USSR launch Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975)%i19750715
00000716 Launch of Apollo 11: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins (1969)%i19690716
00000717 Aviator Douglas Corrigan took off from New York for California, but landed instead in Ireland;  His nickname; "Wrong Way Corrigan" (1938)%i19380717
00000717 First US/USSR linkup in space (Apollo-Soyus) (1975)%i19750717
00000717 First photograph of a star (Vega) (1850)%i18500717
00000717 Pioneer 7 launched
00000718 Carl Sagan turned one billion seconds old (1966)%i19660718
00000718 First women to walk in space: Svetlana Savitskaya accompanies Vladimir Dzhanibekov on EVA outside Salyut 7 (1984)%i19840718
00000718 Launch of Gemini X, John Young and Mike Collins (1966)%i19660718
00000718 Wrong Way Corrigan lands his plane in Dublin and asks if it is California (1938)%i19380718
00000719 1st In-flight movie is shown (on TWA). (1961)%i19610719
00000719 United flight 232 crashes at Suiox City, Iowa airport when the pilot trys to bring in the DC-10 with no rear engine, part of the tail gone and no hydraulics for steering. Remarkably 166 people survive. (1989)%i19890719
00000720 1st pictures from Mars surface received (courtesy Viking 2). (1976)%i19760720
00000720 Amelia Earhart Putnam takes off from Hawaii to become the first woman to fly solo around the world (1937)%i19370720
00000720 First men on the Moon: Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11 (1969)%i19690720
00000720 USSR recovers 2 dogs, first living organisms to return from space (1960)%i19600720
00000720 Viking I lander sets down on Mars returning the first close-up color photos of Mars. It will continue working for six and a half years (1976)%i19760720
00000720 Voyager 2 launched (1977)%i19770720
00000721 Gemini 5 launched atop Titan V: Cooper & Conrad (1965)%i19650721
00000721 Launch of Mercury 4 in sub-orbital flight: Grissom (1961)%i19610721
00000721 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT). (1969)%i19690721
00000723 ERTS (EARTH RESOURCES TECHNOLOGY SATELLITE, later called LANDSAT) launched (1972)%i19720723
00000724 First launch from Cape Canaveral: V-2/WAC Corporal combination
00000725 1st airplane flight across the English Channel. (1909)%i19090725
00000725 USSR launches Mars 5 (1973)%i19730725
00000725 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn (1981)%i19810725
00000726 Canada's Anik D1 comsat launched by US delta rocket (1982)%i19820726
00000726 First geosynchronous satellite (Syncom 2, US) (1963)%i19630726
00000726 Launch of Apollo 1 (1971)%i19710726
00000726 USSR launches first intercontinental multi-stage ballistic missle (1957)%i19570726
00000726 USSR's Soyuz fails to dock with Salyut 3 (1974)%i19740726
00000727 Mariner 2 launched toward Venus flyby mission (1962)%i19620727
00000727 Orville Wright tested the U.S.Army's first airplane, flying it for one hour and 12 minutes (1909)%i19090727
00000728 First photograph of total solar eclipse (1851)%i18510728
00000728 NASA releases transcript of recording of the doomed space shuttle Challenger in which pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying "Uh-oh!" (1986)%i19860728
00000728 Skylab II launched (1973)%i19730728
00000728 US launches Ranger 7 to Moon (1964)%i19640728
00000729 Gemini 5 returns after 12d 7h 11m 53s (1965)%i19650729
00000729 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn's rings (1978)%i19780729
00000729 President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA (1958)%i19580729
00000730 Apollo 15 lands on Moon (1971)%i19710730
00000730 Delta Aquarid meteor shower peaks, 10-35 falls/hr (look south) 
00000730 STS-14: first flight of Discovery (1984)%i19840730
00000730 STS-8: 3rd flight of Challenger, first night launch and land (1983)%i19830730
00000731 Harry S. Truman dedicates N.Y. Int'l Airport at Idlewild Field, later JFK (1948)%i19480731
00000731 Ranger 7 transmits first lunar close-up photos before impact (1964)%i19640731
00000731 The Lunar Roving Vehicle is operated for the first time during the Apollo 15 mission (1971)%i19710731
00000801 Voyager begins its fly-by of Neptune (1989)%i19890801
00000804 US launches first satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft Apollo 15 (1971)%i19710804
00000805 USSR launches Mars 6 (1973)%i19730805
00000805 the spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time, by Giovanni Donati. (1864)%i18640805
00000807 Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok  (1961)%i19610807
00000807 US launches Explorer 6 to take first satellite photo of Earth (1959)%i19590807
00000808 US launches Pioneer Venus probe (1978)%i19780808
00000809 USSR launches Mars 7 (1973)%i19730809
00000810 Construction began on the astronomical observatory at Greenwich England by order of Charles II (1675)%i16750810
00000810 First recovery of ejected film capsule, Discoverer 13 (1960)%i19600810
00000810 Launch of Lunar Orbiter 1 (1966)%i19660810
00000811 Martian moon Deimos discovered by Asaph Hall (1877)%i18770811
00000811 Perseid meteor shower, 50-100 falls/hr (look north; three days) 
00000811 USSR launches first dual manned spacecraft flight (1962)%i19620811
00000812 First passive communications satellite, Echo 1 (1960)%i19600812
00000812 JAL 747 crashes in Japan killing 520 in the worst air disaster to date (1985)%i19850812
00000814 US Orbiter 1 starts orbiting the moon (1966)%i19660814
00000815 The Graf Zeppelin set the world distance record for non-stop flight of 6980 miles from Germany to Tokyo (1929)%i19290815
00000816 Northwest Airline Flt 255 crashed in Detroit killing 165; sole survivor was 4 year-old Cecelia Cichan (1987)%i19870816
00000817 Martian moon Phobos discovered by Asaph Hall (1877)%i18770817
00000817 USSR launches Venera 7 to Venus (1970)%i19700817
00000819 Cosmonauts Lyakhov & Ryumin complete a record 175-day space flight (1979)%i19790819
00000819 The Russians put two dogs into orbit (1960)%i19600819
00000820 Launch of Viking 1, first craft to send pictures from surface of Mars (1975)%i19750820
00000820 Launch of Voyager 2 to outer solar system (1977)%i19770820
00000820 Voyager II launched. (1977)%i19770820
00000822 NASA's X-15 attains altitude of 67 miles (1963)%i19630822
00000824 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to make a non-stop flight across the United States (1932)%i19320824
00000824 Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Neptune - 3042 miles (1989)%i19890824
00000825 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco, headed for Los Angeles after trans-Pacific voyage from Tokyo (1929)%i19290825
00000825 Voyager 2 encounters Neptune, is thrown out of the solar plane and proceeds into deep space. With luck it will transmit useful data until 2015. (1989)%i19890825
00000825 Voyager 2 encounters Saturn. During the passage its scanning platform jams. Study of the problem during the trip to Uranus provides a near perfect encounter there. (1981)%i19810825
00000827 Launch of Mariner 2, first Venus flyby mission (1962)%i19620827
00000828 Saturnian moon Enceladus discovered by William Herschel (1789)%i17890828
00000829 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5 (1965)%i19650829
00000829 Gemini V, carrying Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad, (1965)splashed into the Atlantic after eight days in space.%i19650829
00000829 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky; Nova Cygni 1975. (1975)%i19750829
00000830 1st recorded occurrance of a comet hitting the sun (the energy released was about equal to 1 million hydrogen bombs) (1979)%i19790830
00000830 Guy Bluford becomes first African-American American in space as Challenger make first night liftoff of shuttle program (1983)%i19830830
00000830 Maiden Voyage of Discovery carrying first non-astronaut Charlie Walker (1984)%i19840830
00000831 269 people killed after Korean Airlines 747 shot down by USSR (1983)%i19830831
00000901 Pioneer 11, first craft to fly by Saturn (1979)%i19790901
00000901 Korean Airlines flight 007 is forced to crash land in the Soviet Union after begin fired on by a Soviet interceptor (1983)%i19830901
00000902 The asteroid Juno discovered (1804)%i18040902
00000903 Viking II lander sets down on Mars (1976)%i19760903
00000904 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1) (1964)%i19640904
00000905 The space shuttle Discovery completed its first flight as it landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California (1984)%i19840905
00000905 Voyager 1 begins 3 year flight to Jupiter and Saturn (1977)%i19770905
00000907 Bell X-2 sets unofficial world altitude record for manned aircraft 126,000+ feet (1956)%i19560907
00000909 "Conestoga I", 1st private rocket, is launched. (1982)%i19820909
00000909 Discovery of Jovian moon Almalthea (1892)%i18920909
00000909 Viking 2 launched (1975)%i19750909
00000912 Gemini 11 achieves rendevous and docking during first orbit (1966)%i19660912
00000912 USSR Launches Luna 16 to Moon (1970)%i19700912
00000912 USSR launches Luna 2, first craft to impact another celestial body (Moon, 1959)%i19590912
00000914 Jovina moon Leda discovered by Charles Kowal (1974)%i19740914
00000914 USSR's Zond 5 is launched on first circumlunar flight (1968)%i19680914
00000917 Zond 5 completes lunar circumnavigation (1968)%i19680917
00000919 Saturnian moon Hyperion discovered (1848)%i18480919
00000920 German rocket engineers begin work in US (1945)%i19450920
00000921 Luna 16 leaves the Moon (1970)%i19700921
00000922 Zond 5 completes flight (1968)%i19680922
00000923 The planet Neptune is first observed by Dr. Galie of Berlin based on calculations of gravitational enfluence on Uranus by John Couch Adams of Cambridge and Urbain Le Verrier of Paris (1846)%i18460923
00000924 First Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 1 (1970)%i19700924
00000924 Henri Giffard, French mechanic, flys the first dirigible from Paris to Trappe (1853)%i18530924
00000924 James H. Doolittle achieves the first totally instrument take off and landing (1929)%i19290924
00000924 a new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated. (1852)%i18520924
00000925 144 people died in a PSA air crash in San Diego. (1978)%i19780925
00000926 Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov are saved from their exploding Soyuz T-10 booster by the launch escape system (1983)%i19830926
00000926 Japan launches its first satellite in to space. (1966)%i19660926
00000928 Two U.S. Army planes landed in Seatle completing the first round the world flight in 175 days. (1924)%i19240928
00000929 First U.S. shuttle launch following Challenger disaster (Discovery, 8:37 PDT, 1988)%i19880929
00001001 Inauguration of NASA (1958)%i19581001
00001001 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA (1958)%i19581001
00001002 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit (1984)%i19841002
00001003 AF pilot Pete Knight flies x-15 at a record 4,534 mph (1967)%i19671003
00001003 Discovery lands successfully (1988)%i19881003
00001003 Launch of first V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (1942)%i19421003
00001003 Mercury 8 completes 6 Earth orbits (1962)%i19621003
00001003 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; first flexible substrate photovoltaic (1972)%i19721003
00001004 Courier 1B launched; first active repeater satellite in orbit (1960)%i19601004
00001004 First artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 launched (1957)%i19571004
00001004 Orville Wright pilots his plane for a little over 33 minutes (1905)%i19051004
00001004 USSR Luna 3 sends back first photos of far side of Moon (1959)%i19591004
00001005 41-G Challenger carried first Canadian, Marc Garneau, into orbit (1984)%i19841005
00001005 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star (1923)%i19231005
00001006 NASA successfully launches Discovery which carries the $207 million Ulysses solar probe into space (1990)%i19901006
00001008 First movie in the air; a newsreel and two cartoons at 5000 feet (1929)%i19291008
00001009 2 cosmonauts launched to saluyt 5, but returned after failing to dock (1977)%i19771009
00001009 Kathy Sullivan becomes first American woman to walk in space (1984)%i19841009
00001010 Neptunian moon Triton discovered by William Lassel (1846)%i18461010
00001010 Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network dedicated. (1980)%i19801010
00001011 Apollo 7 launched, 1st manned flight of the Command & Service modules (1968)%i19681011
00001011 Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days (1980)%i19801011
00001011 First manned Apollo flight launched (Apollo 7) (1968)%i19681011
00001011 Pioneer 1 launched; first spacecraft launched by NASA as official agency (1958)%i19581011
00001012 1st commercial flight between California and Antartica. (1957)%i19571012
00001012 Mariner 9 photographs Martian north pole (1972)%i19721012
00001012 US/USSR signed an agreement for joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology; pact was never fullfilled (1962)%i19621012
00001012 USSR launches first 3 man crew in space (1964)%i19641012
00001013 Voshkod 1 crew returns (1964)%i19641013
00001014 2 cosmonats launched to Salyut 6, but return without docking (1976)%i19761014
00001014 Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to break the sound barrier (Mach 1.015 at 42,000 feet) (1947)%i19471014
00001018 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the far side of the Moon (1959)%i19591018
00001018 USSR Venera 4 became first craft to make controlled descent into Venusian atmosphere (1967)%i19671018
00001019 Mariner 5 flies by Venus (1967)%i19671019
00001020 Orionid meteor shower, 10-70 falls/hr (look south) 
00001021 Launch of Venera 9, first craft to orbit Venus (1975)%i19751021
00001022 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii. (1936)%i19361022
00001022 Apollo 7 crew returns (1968)%i19681022
00001022 Chinese make first record of solar eclipse (2136 BC)
00001022 USSR's Venera 9 sends first photos from Venus (1975)%i19751022
00001023 Creation of Cosmos, according to Archbishop James Usher (4004 BC)
00001024 Disaster on USSR launch pad kills missle expert Nedelin and his team (unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash (1960)%i19601024
00001024 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after upper stage fails (1984)%i19841024
00001024 Uranian moons Ariel and Umbriel discovered by Lassel (1846)%i18461024
00001025 Saturnian moon Iapetus discovered by Giovanni Cassini (1671)%i16711025
00001025 USSR Venera 10 lands on Venus (1975)%i19751025
00001026 USSR Soyuz 2 launched (1968)%i19681026
00001026 first NY to Paris and NY to London jet passenger service (1958)%i19581026
00001027 First unmanned flight test of Saturn rocket (1961)%i19611027
00001028 US/USSR sign agreement to discuss joint space efforts (1970)%i19701028
00001030 USSR Kosmos 186 and 188 make first automatic docking (1967)%i19671030
00001030 Venmera 13 launched toward Venus
00001101 Asteroid Chiron discovered (1977)%i19771101
00001101 Werner Von Braun heads German liquid fueled rocket development (1932)%i19321101
00001102 Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose flies for 1st (& last) time. (1947)%i19471102
00001102 Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air balloon flight (1783)%i17831102
00001103 Laika becomes the first animal launched into orbit by USSR (1957)%i19571103
00001103 Mariner 10 launched first flyby pictures of Venus, first mission to Mercury (1973)%i19731103
00001103 Sputnik II launched bearing spacedog Laika, the first dog in space (1957)%i19571103
00001105 US ATS-3 takes first pictures of full Earth disk (1967)%i19671105
00001107 Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rocket (1918)%i19181107
00001109 First unmanned Saturn V flight tests Apollo 4 reentry module (1967)%i19671109
00001109 Halley's comet crosses the ecliptic (1985)%i19851109
00001110 USSR launches Zond 6 to Moon (1968)%i19681110
00001110 Voyager I flies past Saturn. (1980)%i19801110
00001111 Gemini 12 launched, takes first solar eclipse photos from space (1966)%i19661111
00001111 Space Shuttle 'Columbia' makes 1st commercial flight. (1982)%i19821111
00001112 1st time a spacecraft is launched twice -- the Space Shuttle 'Columbia' lifts off again (1981)%i19811112
00001112 Voyager 1 comes within 77000 miles of Saturn and heads out of the plane of the solar system, with luck it will transmit useful data until 2015 (1980)%i19801112
00001113 Mariner 9 orbits Mars (1971)%i19711113
00001114 1st airplane flight from the deck of a ship. (1910)%i19101114
00001114 Apollo 12 blasted off for the moon from Cape Kennedy. (1969)%i19691114
00001116 Probably one of biggest meteor showers in history in the northern latitudes of the Pacific (also on the night of the 17th) (1966)%i19661116
00001116 Skylab 4 launched, completes longest US space flight; 2017 h (1973)%i19731116
00001117 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes (1966)%i19661117
00001124 The first transit of Venus across the Sun observed by William Crabtree and Rev Horrocks (1639)%i16391124
00001125 First Soviet liquid rocket attains altitude of 261 ft (1933)%i19331125
00001126 First Meteor photograph (1885)%i18851126
00001128 Capt. Cyril Turner of the Royal Air Force gave the first skywriting exhibition above New York's Times Square (1922)%i19221128
00001129 Mercury launches a chimp called Ham (1961)%i19611129
00001129 Navy Lieutenant Richard Byrd flies over the South Pole (1929)%i19291129
00001130 8.5 pound meteor struck Elizabeth Hodges when it came through the roof of her house in Sylacauga, Alabama. She had only minor injuries and was hospitalized. (1954)%i19541130
00001201 1st skywriting over the US - "Hello U.S.A." - by Capt Turner, RAF (1922)%i19221201
00001202 First semi soft landing made by Russia's Mars 3 (1971)%i19711202
00001203 Pioneer 10 swings around Jupiter bringing the first closeups of the planet (1973)%i19731203
00001204 Gemini 7 is launched (1965)%i19651204
00001206 First attempted satellite launch (unsuccessful) (1957)%i19571206
00001207 Apollo 17, last of the Apollo moon series, launched. (1972)%i19721207
00001209 First US probes sent to Venus (1978)%i19781209
00001210 The first domestic jet passenger flight took place in the US as a National Airlines Boeing 707 flew 111 passengers from New York to Miami in about two and a half hours (1958)%i19581210
00001211 The last manned moon landing, for now (1972)%i19721211
00001213 Geminid meteor shower, 50-80 falls/hr, (look south) 
00001213 Wright brothers first airplane flight at Kittyhawk. (1903)%i19031213
00001214 Mariner II sends first detailed information about Venus from distance of 21,600 miles (1962)%i19621214
00001215 1st rendezvous in space: Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 link up. (1965)%i19651215
00001215 First craft to land on Venus, Venera 7 (1971)%i19711215
00001215 Gemini 6 & 7 make first space rendevous (1965)%i19651215
00001217 The first flight of the DC-3 (Gooney-bird) (1935)%i19351217
00001217 at 10:35AM, for 12 seconds, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight by Wright Brothers (1903)%i19031217
00001218 Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic to end two week Gemini VII mission (1965)%i19651218
00001218 First test project of SCOR (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) (1958)%i19581218
00001218 William Bond takes the first picture of the moon through a telescope (1849)%i18491218
00001219 The Explorer satellite is launched (1963)%i19631219
00001220 First Space walk made by Grechko from Salyut (1977)%i19771220
00001221 Apollo 8 was launched on its way to man's first orbit of the moon (1968)%i19681221
00001223 First men to orbit Moon: Borman, Lovell & Anders (1968)%i19681223
00001223 Saturnian moon Rhea discovered by Giovanni Cassini (1672)%i16721223
00001224 Apollo 8 Christmas Eve telecast made from lunar orbit (1968)%i19681224
00001224 Luna 13 lands on Moon (1966)%i19661224
00001225 Halley's Comet appears (1758)%i17581225
00001228 Comet Kohoutek at perihelion (1973)%i19731228
00001229 Pan Am starts San Francisco to Auckland, New Zealand service. (1937)%i19371229
00001229 The first all female crew on a commercial airliner was arranged by the seven crew members swapping shifts to get on the same 747 flight (1986)%i19861229
