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This is a list of notable anniversaries in
Physics .
January
1 January
2 January
4 January
8 January
15 January
February
March
April
May
May 1, 1960 -
U-2 spy plane shot down
May 6, 1937 -
Hindenburg fire
May 9, 1012 BC –
Solar Eclipse seen at
Ugarit , 6:09–6:39 PM.
May 9, 1904 –
City of Truro , a steam locomotive exceeds 100 mph (160 km/h).
May 10, 1946 –
V-2 rocket 's first successful launch at
White Sands Proving Ground
May 10, 1960 – The nuclear submarine
USS Triton completes
Operation Sandblast , the first underwater
circumnavigation of the
earth .
May 11, 1862 –
American Civil War : The ironclad
CSS Virginia is scuttled in
Virginia .
May 11, 1995 – In
New York City , over 170 countries extend
Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely, without conditions.
May 11, 1998 –
India conducts three underground
nuclear tests , including a
thermonuclear device .
May 14, 2018 - Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan died.
May 16, 1960 -
Theodore Maiman operates the first optical
laser , at
Hughes Research Laboratories in
Malibu ,
California .
May 16, 1969 –
Venera 5 , a Soviet
spaceprobe , lands on
Venus .
May 17, 1865 – The
International Telegraph Union is established.
May 18, 1974 -
India conducts underground
nuclear tests , named
Smiling Buddha .
May 18, 1998 -
Microsoft sued by US Government
May 19, 1943 -
RAF uses bouncing bombs in combat
May 20, 1932 -
Amelia Earhart crosses
Atlantic Ocean
May 26, 1972 -
President Nixon and
Leonid Brezhnev sign
nuclear weapon non-proliferation pact.
May 24, 1844 - First official
telegraph message is sent by
Samuel Morse .
May 27, 1937 - Grand opening,
Golden Gate Bridge
May 28, 1998 –
Pakistan conducts five underground
nuclear tests , named
Chagai-I .
Births
May 6, 1872 -
Willem de Sitter , physicist, mathematician, and astronomer
May 9, 1931 –
Vance Brand , astronaut
May 10, 1746 –
Gaspard Monge , mathematician
May 10, 1788 –
Augustin-Jean Fresnel physicist
May 10, 1963 –
Lisa Nowak , astronaut
May 11, 1918 –
Richard Feynman , physicist
May 14, 1686 -
Gabriel Fahrenheit , physicist and engineer
May 21, 1921 -
Andrei Sakharov , nuclear physicist
May 7,1861 -
Rabindranath Tagore , poet, patriotist, and philosopher
Deaths
June
First American spacewalker. During the 1965
Gemini IV mission,
Ed White became the first American
astronaut to perform a
spacewalk .
Birthdays
1 June 1633 –
Geminiano Montanari , Italian
astronomer (d. 1687)
1 June 1796 –
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot , French
physicist (d. 1832)
1 June 1899 –
Edward Charles Titchmarsh , English
mathematician (d. 1963)
1 June 1907 – Frank Whittle, invented
jet engine . (d. 1996)
1 June 1917 –
William S. Knowles Nobel Prize laureate
1 June 1940 –
Kip Thorne , American physicist
2 June 1930 –
Pete Conrad , American
astronaut (d. 1999)
2 June 1949 –
Heather Couper , British astronomer
3 June 1659 –
David Gregory , Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)
3 June 1923 –
Igor Shafarevich , Russian mathematician
4 June 1704 –
Benjamin Huntsman , English inventor and manufacturer (d. 1776)
4 June 1877 –
Heinrich Wieland , German
biochemist &
Nobel laureate (d. 1957)
4 June 1916 –
Robert F. Furchgott , American
chemist & Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
4 June 1967 –
Robert Shane Kimbrough , American
astronaut
5 June 1760 –
Johan Gadolin , Finnish
scientist (d. 1852)
5 June 1819 –
John Couch Adams , English
astronomer (d. 1892)
5 June 1862 –
Allvar Gullstrand , Swedish
ophthalmologist Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
5 June 1900 –
Dennis Gabor , Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
5 June 1965 –
Michael E. Brown , American astronomer
13 June 1831 -
James Clerk Maxwell , Scottish
physicist (d. 1879)
July
August
Birthdays
Deaths
September
Births
Deaths
October
November
Births
December
Births