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Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer who, in 1969, became the first person to walk on the Moon.He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
Unlike later generations of stars, these stars are metal-free. SN 1000+0216, oldest observed supernova, occurs. Terzan 5 forms as a small dwarf galaxy on a collision course towards the Milky Way. The dwarf galaxy carrying the Methuselah Star is consumed by the Milky Way. Formation of the star clusters NGC 6522 and Omega Centauri. 11 Ga – 9 Ga
[5] [14] [15] Cole, who lived to be 103, was the only participant to live to a higher age than the raid's leader, Jimmy Doolittle, who died in 1993 at age 96. [ 16 ] [ citation needed ] On September 19, 2016, the Northrop Grumman B-21 was formally named "Raider" in honor of the Doolittle Raiders. [ 17 ]
Drive-in advertisement from 1957 for 20 Million Miles to Earth and co-feature, The 27th Day.. The film was based on a concept by Ray Harryhausen called The Giant Ymir. [1]20 Million Miles to Earth began production in Rome, Italy in September 1956, using only William Hopper of the main cast, and moved to the U.S. from October 30 to November 9 of that year. [2]
Walter Breuning (September 21, 1896 – April 14, 2011) was an American supercentenarian who lived for 114 years and 205 days and was, up to the time of his death, the oldest living man in the world and the third-oldest verified man ever, behind Christian Mortensen and Emiliano Mercado del Toro.
103: Italian neurologist, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and senator [124] Paul A. Libby: 1921–2021: 100: American fluid dynamicist [125] Edward J. Lofgren: 1914–2016: 102: American physicist [126] James Lovelock: 1919–2022: 103: British chemist [127] Lu Yuanjiu: 1920–2023: 103
Celebrities 'heartbroken' over burning homes. The blazes have destroyed at least 1,000 homes, businesses, and other structures, according to Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone.
Copernicus's Toruń birthplace (ul. Kopernika 15, left).Together with no. 17 (right), it forms Muzeum Mikołaja Kopernika.Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, [10] [11] to German-speaking parents.