13 June
1831: On 13 June 1831, James Clerk Maxwell was born.Maxwell was a Scottish physicist who made contributions to the areas of optics and colour vision, being credited with taking the ...
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1962: On 14 June 1962, the signing of convention of the new European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) took place. Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom signed the convention in Paris. ESRO launched the European scientific satellite programme in the period 1969-73. The long and painstaking process of the starting of the European space cooperation ultimately led, in 1975, to the birth of the European Space Agency.
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12 June
1967: On 12 June 1967, the USSR launched Venera 4, a Venus atmospheric probe.It arrived at Venus on 18 October 1967 and was the first probe to be placed directly ...
11 June
1867: On 11 June 1867, Charles Fabry was born.Fabry was a French physicist who specialised in optics, devising methods for the accurate interferometry. He worked with Alfred Pérot, during 1896-1906, ...
10 June
1999: On 10 June 1999, ESA and NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had spotted a cluster of massive newborn stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), 170 000 ...
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