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Leonard Nimoy: birth
Category: Organizations and PeopleType: Birth
Role: Performer
Leonard Nimoy: birth.
Nichelle Nichols: birth
Category: Organizations and PeopleType: Birth
Role: Performer
Nichelle Nichols: birth.
Jansky’s cosmic radio discovery publicized
Category: Discoveries and Scientific ResultsType: Result announcement
A New York Times report brought Karl Jansky’s detection of radio emission from the Milky Way to public attention.
Baade and Zwicky connect supernovae and neutron stars
Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky proposed that supernovae can mark the formation of neutron stars.
Carl Sagan — birth
Category: Organizations and PeopleType: Birth
Role: Scientist
Carl Sagan — birth (1934-11-09).
Emmy Noether: death
Category: Organizations and PeopleType: Death
Role: Mathematician
Emmy Noether: death.
Margaret Hamilton — birth
Category: Organizations and PeopleType: Birth
Role: Computer scientist, Engineer
Margaret Hamilton — birth (1936-08-17).
Joanna Russ: birth
Category: Organizations and PeopleType: Birth
Role: Science fiction writer
Joanna Russ: birth.
Who Goes There?: publication
Category: Science FictionType: Science fiction publication
Who Goes There? (Novella) by John W. Campbell Jr.
Who Goes There?: publication.
Marooned off Vesta: publication
Category: Science FictionType: Science fiction publication
Marooned off Vesta (Short story) by Isaac Asimov
Marooned off Vesta: publication.
Life-Line: publication
Category: Science FictionType: Science fiction publication
Life-Line (Short story) by Robert A. Heinlein
Life-Line: publication.
Oppenheimer and Snyder publish gravitational-collapse research
Category: Discoveries and Scientific ResultsType: Research publication
The paper described continuing gravitational collapse of a massive star.
Dennis Tito — birth
Category: Organizations and PeopleType: Birth
Role: Space tourist, Engineer
Dennis Tito — birth (1940-08-08).
Nightfall: publication
Category: Science FictionType: Science fiction publication
Nightfall (Short story) by Isaac Asimov
Nightfall: publication.
Samuel R. Delany: birth
Category: Organizations and PeopleType: Birth
Role: Science fiction writer
Samuel R. Delany: birth.
H. G. Wells: death
Category: Organizations and PeopleType: Death
Role: Science fiction writer
H. G. Wells: death.
Rocket Ship Galileo: publication
Category: Science FictionType: Science fiction publication
Rocket Ship Galileo (Novel) by Robert A. Heinlein
Rocket Ship Galileo: publication.
Octavia E. Butler — birth
Category: Organizations and PeopleType: Birth
Role: Science fiction writer
Octavia E. Butler — birth (1947-06-22).
Bumper rocket reaches high altitude
Category: Launches and Flight TestsType: Suborbital launch
A two-stage Bumper rocket reached approximately 393 kilometers in a high-altitude test.
Rocket experiment detects solar X-rays
A Naval Research Laboratory detector on a V-2 rocket measured X-rays from the Sun.