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Date: 16 October 1964 (3:00 PM China Standard Time) Code name: 596 Type: plutonium fission Yield: 22 thousand tons of TNT Location: Lop Nur, Xin Jiang, China

On October 14, 1947, in the rocket powered Bell X-1, Capt.

The first five standardized time zones of the US and Canada went into effect on this day in 1883.

Celebrate the powers of 10 on the tenth day of the tenth month. books (paid link) Cosmic View: The Universe in 40 Jumps (paid link).

Rudolph Diesel, of diesel engine fame, was last seen alive 29 September 1913 aboard the steamship Dresden en route from Antwerp to London.

Date: 8 October 2006 (10:35 AM Korea Standard Time) Code name: unknown Type: plutonium fission Yield: less than one thousand tons of TNT Location: Kilchu-ŭp, North Hamgyŏng Earthquake magnitude: 4.3 This test is thought to have been a fizzle.

The Wright Brothers completed the sixth and final flight in a series of “long duration” (20-40 minute) flights at Huffman Prairie, Ohio on 5 October 1905.

The world’s first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball, weighed only 83 kg, and took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path.

Space Shuttle Atlantis, named after the two-masted research vessel used by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution between 1930 and 1966, was the fourth space-qualified orbiter to join the fleet.

NASA became operational on 1 October 1958 — almost exactly one year after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite.

Rudolph Diesel, of diesel engine fame, was last seen alive around 10:00 PM on 29 September 1913 aboard the steamship Dresden en route from Antwerp to London.

Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang made the nation’s first spacewalk on this day in 2008 floating outside the Shenzhou VII spacecraft for 18 minutes as it orbited the earth.

Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample to Earth.

A double flash characteristic of a nuclear explosion was recorded by the US Department of Defense Vela 6911 satellite in the South Indian Ocean on this day in 1979.

Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample to Earth.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (a.k.a. the "Triple A-S") was established on this day in 1848.

Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample to Earth.

Lunokhod 1 was the first robotic rover to operate on another celestial body.

On September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) simultaneously observed a transient gravitational-wave signal.

A nuclear waste dump exploded on this day in 1999, propelling the moon out of the solar system.

Leo Szilard crosses the street on his way from the Imperial Hotel to the British Museum.

Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample to Earth.

The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) was successfully steered around the full 27 kilometres of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10:28 in the morning on 10 September 200…

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Engineers at Harvard University had been having problems with a Mark II electromechanical computer on this day in 1947.

A piece of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 4 was found in the middle of the road in front of 610 North 8th Street in Manitowoc, Wisconsin on 5 September 1962.

Voyager 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket on 5 September 1977.

Thomas Edison did not invent the electric light bulb or the electric generator.

First Color Image of the Viking Lander 2 Site

Pioneer 11 made its closest approach to Saturn on 1 September 1979.

The ban on the manufacture, importation, and sale of incandescent light bulbs of 100 W or greater went into effect in the European Union on this day in 2009.

The maiden flight of Discovery (STS-41-D) was supposed to take place on 26 June 1984.

The termination shock is the locus of points in space where the solar wind basically stops blowing outward from the sun and begins to drift with the background gases of interstellar space.

According to Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the military-designed artificial intelligence system called Skynet became self-aware on 29 August 1997 at 2:14 AM and turned against its creators on what became known as Judgement Day.

Entry from Faraday’s lab notebook dated 29 August 1931.

Scientific American is part of the Nature Portfolio, which is a British division of the German Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck.

Michael Faraday died 25 August 1867 at the age of 76.

Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune on 25 August 1989.

Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Saturn on 25 August 1981.

Date: 24 August 1968 (8:30 AM Tahiti Time) Code Name: Canopus Type: two-stage fusion Yield: 2.6 million tons of TNT Location: Fangataufa Atoll, French Polynesia

Voyager 2 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket on 20 August 1977.

Sputnik 5 was launched on 19 August 1960 with the dogs Белка (Belka), which means squirrel, and Стрелка (Strelka), which means arrow, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants on board.

Sixty years ago today in August… An hour and thirty-one minutes after launch, my pressure altimeter halts at 103,300 feet.

A widespread power outage that affected parts of Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts began at approximately 4:10 PM on 14 August 2003.