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||1969: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon. | ||1969: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon. | ||
||1969: The crew of Apollo 11 install a retroreflector array on Lunar Laser Ranging experiment. Pic. | |||
||2011: NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. | ||2011: NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. | ||
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1810: Chemist and physicist Henri Victor Regnault born. He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.
1910: Physicist John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within giant novelty Fleming tube.
1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory Marshall McLuhan born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
2016: Synthetic organism Ultravore begins consuming radioactive chemical waste at the Hanford Site.
2018: Dragons Fighting voted Pictire of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.