966 - Christianization of Poland.
1629 - Born Christian Huygens, Dutch astronomer (he researched the rings of Saturn).
1792 - died Maximilian Hell, Slovak astronomer.
1904 - Born Reinout W van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist.
1914 - Born Paul Ehrenreich, German atnolog.
1929 - Born William Edgar Thornton, astronaut (STS-8, 51-B, sk: 49)
1941 - Born Anatoli Pavlocich Fyodorov, cosmonaut.
1942 - Born Valentin Vitaliyevich Lebedev, astronaut (Soyuz 13, 35, T-5).
1949 - Born Joseph A Cushman, American paleontologist.
1953 - Born Irina Rudolfovna Pronina, Russian cosmonaut.
1912 - RMS Titanic strikes the glacier is in 23:40 in Newfoundland.
1928 - Navljuduvan a beam of light to launch the moon.
1958 - Vselesnkiot ship Sputnik 2 (Laika the dog) after 162 days, wraps up mission to the atmosphere.
