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||1989: Valentin Petrovich Glushko dies ... rocket scientist who was a pioneer developer of rocket engines (1946-74). From 1929, he worked in Leningrad in GDL - the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, the military rocket research organization, founded in 1921. He worked with renowned rocket designer Sergey Korolyov (1932-1966). In Aug 1957, they successfully launched the first intercontinental ballistic missile and in October of the same year, sent the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit. He became chief designer for the Soviet space program in 1974, helping to oversee development of the Mir space station. During his life, he designed the most succesessful rocket engines in the Soviet space program. Pic. | ||1989: Valentin Petrovich Glushko dies ... rocket scientist who was a pioneer developer of rocket engines (1946-74). From 1929, he worked in Leningrad in GDL - the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, the military rocket research organization, founded in 1921. He worked with renowned rocket designer Sergey Korolyov (1932-1966). In Aug 1957, they successfully launched the first intercontinental ballistic missile and in October of the same year, sent the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit. He became chief designer for the Soviet space program in 1974, helping to oversee development of the Mir space station. During his life, he designed the most succesessful rocket engines in the Soviet space program. Pic. | ||
||1996: Louis W. Tordella dies ... the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency. Pic. | |||
||1997: Alexander R. Todd dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1997: Alexander R. Todd dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born.
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1960: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, announces world tour.