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 Matthew Love Send message Joined: 1 Dec 07 Posts: 13 Credit: 40,040 RAC: 0 |
Douglas Hyde Elected First President of Ireland (1938) Hyde was an Irish scholar and political leader. He was largely responsible for the revival of Irish language and literature through his founding of the Gaelic League in 1893. After teaching modern Irish for many years, Hyde became the president of Ireland, or Eire, in 1938. Using his Gaelic name, An Craoibhin Aoibhinn, he authored many works, including a Literary History of Ireland and Love Songs of Connacht.  
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
December 05, 1901: Walt Disney was born! Faik --- Member of the C@H Team! |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
December 06, 1492: Christopher Columbus lands on the Santo Domingo island in search for gold. December 06, 1877: Thomas A. Edison recites "Mary had a Little Lamb" into his phonograph machine, making the first sound recording ever. December 06, 1923: the first presidential address to be broadcast on radio when President Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress. Faik --- Member of the C@H Team! |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
A fun fact for today: December 11, 1787: Pannsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S Constitution! Faik --- Member of the C@H Team! |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
When I put the last post up, I forgot that this website is set to work on the UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). At the time, it was still Dcember 11 in Illinois, which functions according to the CST (Central Standard Time). I will try to remeber that next time. Anyhow, here are a few more fun historical trivia: December 12, 1838: birthdate for US astronomer Sherburne W. Burnham (famous for his work on double stars) December 12, 1204: death of famous philosopher Maimonides in Cairo, Egypt December 12, 1994: death of Stuart Allen Roosa astronaut (Apollo 14) at age 46 December 12, 1985: NASA launches space vehicle S-207 December 12, 1986: Microlite aircraft circles the world non-stop Faik --- Member of the C@H Team! |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
Born on Dec 19,... 1852: Albert Abraham Michelson, the famous German-born, American physicist who had measured the speed of light accurately and whose name along with that of Edward Morley has become synonymous with the failure of attempts to detect motion through the ether 1813: Thomas Andrews, the Irish physicist who demonstrated that during changes between the liquid and gaseous states, the physical properties display no abrupt changes |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
Born on December 22.... 1911: Grote Reber was an amateur astronomer and engineer. He was a pioneer radio astronomer and the first person to ever to build a parabolic "dish" radio telescope (9 metres in diameter) in his back yard in Illinois in (1937) Happened on December 22... 1968: the first U.S. live telecast from a manned spacecraft in outer space. It was transmitted from Apollo VIII at 3:01 pm. At the time of transmission, the craft was at a distance of about 139,000 miles from Earth. 1870: American astronomer, Charles Young, made the first observations of the flash spectrum of the Sun. 1870: Pierre Janssen, a French astronomer, flew in a balloon to study a solar eclipse. |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
Happened on December 23... 1672: Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini (1625-1712) discovered Rhea, the fifth major satellite orbiting Saturn. 1968: American astronauts Frank Borman (Commander), James A. Lovell, Jr. (Command Module Pilot), and William Anders (Lunar Module Pilot) became the first humans to ever orbit the moon. |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
Born on December 24.... 1740: Anders Johan Lexell was a Swedish astronomer, mathematician and physicist. Lexell (1740-1784) made important contributions in polygeometry and celestial mechanics (Lexell's comet was named after him). 1761: Jean Louis Pons was a French astronomer. Pons (1761-1831) is most famous for the discovery of thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history. 1818: James Prescott Joule was an English physicist. Joule (1818-1889) is most famous for his discovery of the relationship between mechanical work and heat. 1910: William Hayward Pickering was an American, New-Zealand born engineer and physicist. Pickering (1910-2004) was the head of the team that developed Explorer 1, America's first satellite. Happened on December 24... 2004: Huygens, a space probe, began a 22-day descent journey towards Titan, Saturn's largest moon |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
Happened on December 29... 1987: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko ended his record 326-day space flight, orbiting Earth on board of Russian space station, Mir. He landed in a Soyuz spacecraft at a snow-covered site in the Republic of Kazakhstan (former USSR). |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
Happened on December 30.... 1924: Edwin Hubble announced his discovery that at least one other galactic system exists in addition to the Milky Way. This discovery was a pivotal moment in the evolution of modern cosmology. |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
Born on January 02.... 1729: Johann Daniel Titius. Titus (1729-1796) was a German astronomer, physicist and biologist. He is most famous for proposing a formula in 1766 expressing the distance between the planets and the sun. Happened on January 02... 1959: the former USSR launched the unmanned spacecraft Luna 1, which became the first man-made object to escape the Earth's gravitational pull. It passed at a distance of 4,600 miles from the moon, before it continued its journey to an orbit around the sun. 1960: John Reynolds (1923-2000) estimated the age of the solar system to be 4,950,000,000 years. Faik --- Member of the C@H Team! |
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Born on January 03... 1906: William Morgan (1906-1994) was an American astronomer. He is most famous for providing the observational evidence that the Milky Way Galaxy has spiral arms (1951). Faik --- Member of the C@H Team! |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
Happened on January 05... 1892: German astronomer Martin Brendel (1862-1939 ) successfully obtains the first photograph of the aurora borealis at Bossekop, Norway! Faik --- Member of the C@H Team! |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
Born on January 08... 1587: Johannes Fabricius (1587- 1615) was a Dutch astronomer. Fabricius is most famous for being the first astronomer in history to have had observed sunspots (1610). 1868: Frank Dyson (1868-1939) was a British astronomer. Dyson is most famous for directing the famous 1918 solar eclipse expedition, along with Eddington, which confirmed the bending of starlight as it passed in the vicinity of the sun, confirming Albert Einstein's earlier expedition. 1942: Stephen Hawking (1942 - ) is a British cosmologist and mathematician. Hawking is most famous for his many contributions to theoretical cosmology and for his best-selling popular science book, A Brief History of Time. Faik --- Member of the C@H Team! |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
Born on January 10... 1936: Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936 - ) is an American astronomer. He is most famous for discovering, by accident, the Cosmic Microwave Radiation Background in 1964 with Arno Penzias. Faik --- Member of the C@H Team! |
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Faik Send message Joined: 3 Oct 11 Posts: 2771 Credit: 140,700 RAC: 0 |
Born on January 10... 1936: Robert Woodrow Wilson (1936 - ) is an American astronomer. He is most famous for discovering, by accident, the Cosmic Microwave Radiation Background in 1964 with Arno Penzias. Faik --- Member of the C@H Team! |
