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21/12/2025

On 21 December 20211968, The Apollo 8 mission was launched
It was the first mission to take humans to the Moon and back. While the crew did not land on the Moon's surface, the flight was an important prelude to a lunar landing, testing the flight trajectory and operations getting there and back.

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30/09/2023

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Born 29 Sep 1925; died 28 Aug 2007 at age 81.
Paul Beattie MacCready was an American engineer and inventor who invented not only the first human-powered flying machines, but also the first solar-powered aircraft to make sustained flights. On 23 Aug 1977, the pedal-powered aircraft, the Gossamer Condor successfully flew.

30/09/2023

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Antoine-Jerome Balard born 30th Sep 1802: discovered bromine (Br, element 35), hypochlorous acid, and dichlorine monoxide.He also discovered the presence of bromine in sea plant and animals
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30/09/2023

Antoine-Jerome Balard born 30th Sep 1802: discovered bromine (Br, element 35), hypochlorous acid, and dichlorine monoxide.He also discovered the presence of bromine in sea plant and animals
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29/09/2023

Born 29 Sep 1925; died 28 Aug 2007 at age 81.
Paul Beattie MacCready was an American engineer and inventor who invented not only the first human-powered flying machines, but also the first solar-powered aircraft to make sustained flights. On 23 Aug 1977, the pedal-powered aircraft, the Gossamer Condor successfully flew.

28/09/2023

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*Born: September 28, 1852, Paris, France*
*Ferdinand Frederic Henri Moissan,* a French chemist, was the first to successfully isolate(discover) fluorine in 1886. He did this through the electrolysis of potassium fluoride (KF) and hydrofluoric acid (HF).
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27/09/2023

Albert Einstein: I used to wonder how it comes about that the electron is negative. Negative-positive—these are perfectly symmetric in physics. There is no reason whatever to prefer one to the other. Then why is the electron negative? I thought about this for a long time and at last all I could think was “It won the fight!”

15/08/2022

Conceived 15 Aug 1892; kicked the bucket 19 Mar 1987 at age 94. quotes
Louis Victor Pierre Raymond duc de Broglie was a French physicist most popular for his examination on quantum hypothesis and for his revelation of the wave idea of electrons.
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