03-22-2011, 09:09 PM
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Location: Maryland
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March 23rd
1749 ~ Birthday of Pierre Simon de Laplace, Mathematician & Astronomer.
1775 ~ Patrick Henry delivered his famous speech - "give me liberty or give me death" in Williamsburg, Virginia.
1882 ~ Birthday of Emmy Noether, Mathematician. Now there's a lady who had a tough row to hoe!
1912 ~ Birthday of Wernher von Braun, Engineer.
1923 ~ Birthday of Roger Bannister, athlete, first "Miracle Mile"
1962 ~ NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, was launched.
1983 ~ President Ronald Reagan made his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept missiles.
1989 ~ Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announced cold fusion at the University of Utah.
1989 ~ A 1,000-foot diameter Near-Earth asteroid (4581 Asclepius) missed the Earth by 400,000 miles.
2001 ~ The Russian space station Mir was de-orbited, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
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