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 Bank Holiday (England) (1688) Death of Sir Henry Morgan. [320yrs] (1822) Death of Sir William Herschel. [186yrs] (1867) Death of Michael Faraday. [141yrs] (1989) Voyager sends back images of Triton. [19yrs] | 26
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 (1883) Eruption of Krakatoa. [125yrs] (1908) Birth of Don Bradman. [100yrs] (1962) Launch of Mariner 2. [46yrs] | 28
 (1958) Launch of Sputnik 3. [50yrs] | 29
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 New (Blue) Moon (30BC) Death of Cleopatra. [2038yrs] (1797) Birth of Mary Shelley. [211yrs] (1871) Birth of Ernest Rutherford. [137yrs] (1884) Birth of Dr Collis Browne [124yrs] | 31
 Peak of Alpha Aurigids meteor shower (1913) Birth of Sir Bernard Lovell. [95yrs] (1979) Comet Howard-Koomur-Michels becomes first recorded comet to strike the Sun. [29yrs] |
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 (1859) British astronomer Christopher Carrington records first observation of a Solar Flare. [149yrs] (1923) Major earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama. [85yrs] (1985) Wreck of R.M.S. Titanic located. [23yrs] | 2
 (1666) Great Fire of London starts. [342yrs] (1834) Death of Thomas Telford. [174yrs] (1910) Death of Henri Rousseau. [98yrs] (1973) Death of JRR Tolkein. [35yrs] | 3
 (1189) Coronation of King Richard I of England (Richard the Lionheart). [819yrs] (1658) Death of Oliver Cromwell. [350yrs] (1939) Britain and France declare war on Germany. [69yrs] (1976) Viking 2 lands on Mars at Utopia Planetia. [32yrs] | 4
 (1907) Death of Edvard Grieg [101yrs] (1985) ROV cameras take first pictures of RMS Titanic wreck in Atlantic. [23yrs] | 5
 (1638) Birth of Louis XIV - king of France 1643 - 1715. [370yrs] (1698) Peter Great (tzar of Russia) Introduces tax on beards. [310yrs] (1975) Launch of Voyager I [33yrs] (1997) Death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. [11yrs] (1982) Death of Sir Douglas Bader. [26yrs] | 6
 (1620) Mayflower sets sail from Plumouth, bound for North America. [388yrs] (1666) End of the Great Fire of London. [342yrs] | 7
 First Quarter Moon
Add to Diary (1533) Birth of Elizabeth I in Greenwich. [475yrs] (1914) Birth of James Van Allen. [94yrs] |
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 (1157) Birth of King Richard I. [851yrs] (1504) Michaelangelo's David unveilled in Florence. [504yrs] (1841) Birth of Anton Dvorak. [167yrs] (1966) Star Trek episode 1 (Man Trap) first broadcast. [42yrs] | 9
 Peak of September Persids meteor shower
Add to Diary Committee Meeting
Add to Diary (1087) Death of William the Conqueror (1st Norman king of England). [921yrs] (1754) Birth of Captain William Bligh. [254yrs] (1901) Death of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec [107yrs] | 10
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 Venus is in conjunction with Mars
Add to Diary (1816) Birth of Carl Zeiss [192yrs] (1978) Death of Georgi Markov - stabbed with poisoned umbrella tip. [30yrs] (2001) Two planes deliberately crashed into World Trade Centre buildings. [7yrs] | 12
 (1959) Launch of Luna 2 [49yrs] | 13
 Moon occults Neptune
Add to Diary (1916) Birth of Roald Dahl [92yrs] | 14
 (1752) Gregorian calendar replaces Julian calendar in Britain. [256yrs] (1938) Birth of Walter Konig (Chekov in Star Trek) [70yrs] |
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 Full Moon
Add to Diary (1784) First Hydrogen Balloon Ascent in England by Vincenzo Lunardi [224yrs] (1830) First fatal rail accident. [178yrs] (1877) Death of Crazy Horse, Sioux Chief). [131yrs] (1904) First weather balloon launch in USA [104yrs] | 16
 (1620) Mayflower departs for Massachusetts from Plymouth. [388yrs] (1977) Marc Bolan killed in car crash. [31yrs] | 17
 (1701) Death of King James II. [307yrs] | 18
 (1709) Birth of Dr Samuel Johnson. [299yrs] (1970) Death of Jimi Hendrix [38yrs] | 19
 Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day! | 20
 Moon occults M45 - the Pleiades.
Add to Diary (323BC) Birth of Alexander the Great. [2331yrs] | 21
 (19BC) Death of Virgil. [2027yrs] (1866) Birth of H.G. Wells. [142yrs] |
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 Autumn Equinox
Add to Diary Last Quarter Moon
Add to Diary (1515) Birth of Anne of Cleves [493yrs] (1791) Birth of Michael Faraday [217yrs] (2001) First images of Comet Borrelly returned by Deep Space 1 probe. [7yrs] | 23
(1846) Discovery of Neptune by Johanne Galle [162yrs] | 24
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(1822) Rosetta Stone allows Egyptian Hieroglyphs to be deciphered. [186yrs] (1917) Death of Edgar Degas [91yrs] | 28
(1953) Death of Edwin Hubble [55yrs] (1066) Wiliam of Normandy lands in Pevensea, starting Norman Conquest of England. [942yrs] (1895) Death of Louis Pasteur. [113yrs] |
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New Moon
Add to Diary (1399) King Richard II of England abdicates. [609yrs] (1758) Birth of Horatio Nelson. [250yrs] | 30
Society Meeting - What Lies Beneath the Void by Prof. Chris Binns, University of Leicester
Add to Diary (1791) First performance of Mozart's Magic Flute. [217yrs] (1840) Foundation stone laid for Nelson's Column. [168yrs] (1955) James Dean killed in car crash. [53yrs] | 1
Start of Pheasant shooting season in Britain. (1971) Opening of Walt Disney World in Florida. [37yrs] | 2
(322BC) Death of Aristotle. [2330yrs] | 3
(1896) Death of William Morris. [112yrs] (1967) Death of Woodie Guthrie. [41yrs] | 4
(1859) Beginning of the Crimean War. [155yrs] (1669) Death of Rembrandt. [339yrs] (1947) Death of Max Planck. [61yrs] (1957) Launch of Sputnik I. [51yrs] | 5
(1930) Crash of R101 airship [78yrs] (1989) Exiled Dalai Lama awarded Nobel Peace Prize. [19yrs] |