To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
Events
1846 - The Smithsonian Institution is chartered by the U.S. Congress after $500,000 was given for such a purpose by scientist James Smithson.
1990 - The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.
Births
1839 - Aleksandr Grigorievich Stoletov, Russian physicist
1902 - Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate
1913 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel laureate
Deaths
1802 - Franz Aepinus, German scientist
1839 - John St Aubyn, British fossil collector
1896 - Otto Lilienthal, German aviation pioneer (above)
1915 - Henry Moseley, English physicist
1945 - Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist
1979 - Walter Gerlach, German physicist
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