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Today in Science

By jlynch on April 13, 2007.

Events

1956 - Videotape is first demonstrated at the NARTB (now NAB) convention

1958 - The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.

1970 - One of Apollo 13's oxygen tanks explodes, causing a cancelled moon mission.

1981 - The first operational space shuttle, Columbia, lands at Edwards Air Force Base after its first test flight.

2003 - Human Genome Project successfully completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to 99.99% accuracy.

Births

1629 - Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician

1927 - Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate

Deaths

1792 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer

1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician

1964 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician

1964 - Rachel Carson, American environmentalist

1994 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar

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History and Philosophy (often of Science)

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