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||240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|986: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] dies.
File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|986: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] dies.
||1555 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch physician, mathematician, and cartographer (b. 1508)
||1632 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572)
||1865 – Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1943)
||Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman (d. 25 May [O.S. 13 May] 1866) was a Russian mathematician of Austrian origin.
File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1889: Aircraft designer [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
File:Igor Sikorsky 1914.jpg|link=Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|1889: Aircraft designer [[Igor Sikorsky (nonfiction)|Igor Sikorsky]] born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
||1921 – Jack Steinberger, German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
||1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee.
||1939 – Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer and academic (b. 1868)
||1953 – At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
||1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
||1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
||1978 – The first bomb of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries.
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1981: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1981: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
File:John F. Kennedy moon mission speech.jpg|link=|1961: Apollo program: U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|John F. Kennedy]] announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
File:John F. Kennedy moon mission speech.jpg|link=|1961: Apollo program: U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|John F. Kennedy]] announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
||1981 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and astronomer (b. 1912)
||2008 – NASA's Phoenix lander lands in Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
||2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
||2012 – The SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station.


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  • 986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.

    986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.

  • 1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

    1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

  • 1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.

    1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.

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