March 18th
Events
1906 - Traian Vuia flew a self-propelled heavier-than-air aircraft which took off without any external means
1909 - Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter becoming the first radio broadcaster.
1965 - Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space
Births
1602 - Jacques de Billy, French mathematician
1640 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer
1690 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician
1858 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor
1905 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist
1907 - John Zachary Young, biologist
1935 - Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician
Deaths
1871 - Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician
1907 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist
Comments
Traian Vuia, sounds like the original sky gypsy and it is a good day to fly.
Greetings from Rodeo New Mexico and the Rodeo Flying Circus
Posted by: Bruce Thompson | March 18, 2007 8:43 PM