1823 – Dies Jacques Alexandre César Charles, French innovator, together with Nicholas Robert, were the first balloon flew with hydrogen
1906 – Volcano Vesuvius have erupted and destroyed Naples
1911 – Was born Kenneth Oakley, (Amersham Buckinghamshire), an American anthropologist, paleontologist and geologist
1920 – Was born Dr. Terence Edward Armstrong, geographer, an polar area expert
1983 – In Egypt Dr. Fred Wendorf discovered the oldest skeleton of a man, aged 80,000 years.
1991 - Observatory Compton Gamma Ray is launched to circle around the Earth
1997 - Died Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut
2001 - Launched a robrotskoto spacecraft Mars Odyssey.
