13 November
1998: On 13 November 1998, the discovery of the 1000th pulsar in our galaxy was announced by the Jodrell Bank Observatory, University of Manchester, UK.The university used the 64-metre Parkes ...
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1930: On 14 November 1930, Edward H White was born.
White was the first US astronaut to walk in space, on board Gemini 4, launched on 3 June 1965. During the third orbit, White emerged from the spacecraft, floated in space for about 20 minutes, and became the first person to propel himself in space with a manoeuvering unit.
Two years later, on 27 January 1967, White was one of the three-man crew of Apollo 1, who were killed in a fire on the launchpad during a test of their capsule.
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12 November
1916: On 12 November 1916, Percival Lowell died.Lowell was an American astronomer who predicted the existence of the planet Pluto and initiated the search that ended in its discovery.Lowell was ...
11 November
1572: On 11 November 1572, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe first observed a 'new star', (B Cassiopeiae or Nova Cassiopeiae 1572), one of the few recorded supernovae in the Milky ...
10 November
1861: On 10 November 1861, Robert Thorburn Ayton Innes was born.Innes was a Scottish astronomer who was invited by David Gill to the Cape Observatory, South Africa in 1894. He ...
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