966 - Christianization of Poland.
1629 - Born Christian Huygens, Dutch astronomer (he researched the rings of Saturn).
1792 - died Maximilian Hell, Slovak astronomer.
1904 - Born Reinout W van Bemmelen, Dutch geologist.
1914 - Born Paul Ehrenreich, German atnolog.
1929 - Born William Edgar Thornton, astronaut (STS-8, 51-B, sk: 49)
1941 - Born Anatoli Pavlocich Fyodorov, cosmonaut.
1942 - Born Valentin Vitaliyevich Lebedev, astronaut (Soyuz 13, 35, T-5).
1949 - Born Joseph A Cushman, American paleontologist.
1953 - Born Irina Rudolfovna Pronina, Russian cosmonaut.
1912 - RMS Titanic strikes the glacier is in 23:40 in Newfoundland.
1928 - Navljuduvan a beam of light to launch the moon.
1958 - Vselesnkiot ship Sputnik 2 (Laika the dog) after 162 days, wraps up mission to the atmosphere.

1204 - Crusaders occupied Constantinople.
1796 - In the United States enacted the first elephant from India.
1849 - Hungary was declared as republic.
1928 - The first trans Atlantic flight 33 W Bremen, from Europe to the United States (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Köhl).
1959 - USAF launch ship Discoverer II in polar orbits.
1960 - Transit 1B, the first navigational satellite was placed in Earth orbit.
1984 - Spacecraft Challenger 5 of 11 space mission returns to Earth.
1850 - Born Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, a British astronomer.
1855 - Died Henry De la Beche, English geologist.

1823 – Dies Jacques Alexandre César Charles, French innovator, together with Nicholas Robert, were the first balloon flew with hydrogen
1906 – Volcano Vesuvius have erupted and destroyed Naples
1911 – Was born Kenneth Oakley, (Amersham Buckinghamshire), an American anthropologist, paleontologist and geologist
1920 – Was born Dr. Terence Edward Armstrong, geographer, an polar area expert
1983 – In Egypt Dr. Fred Wendorf discovered the oldest skeleton of a man, aged 80,000 years.
1991 - Observatory Compton Gamma Ray is launched to circle around the Earth
1997 - Died Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut
2001 - Launched a robrotskoto spacecraft Mars Odyssey.

648 bc - The first full solar eclipse observed by the ancient Greeks.
1652 - Colony Cape Town is the first European (Dutch) settlement in South Africa, founded by the Dutch East India Company under the leadership of Jan van Riebeeck.
1667 - An earthquake splits Dubrovnik.
1851 – Was born French astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan.
1896 - Athens held the first modern Olympic Games.
1909 - Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson are the first people of the North Pole.
1963 - Died Russian astronomer Otto Struve.
1965 - 1 Intelsat - "Early Bird", the first communications satellite placed in orbit sonhronichnata.
1980 – Was born French astronomer Andre L Danjon.
1990 - Died American astronaut (NASA) Ronald E Evans (part of the mission Apollo 17)
1984 – Was launched 11th Space Shuttle from the mission 41-C.
2009 - An earthquake measuring 6.3 magnitude was registered near the city of L'Aquila, Italy.

1722 - Jacob Rogev discovered Easter Island
1804 - In Scotland fell first recorded meteorite
1804 - Erupting volcano Tambora (Sumbawa)
1838 - Born Alpheus Hjat (USA), paleontologist
1926 - Born Milton O Thomson, astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15)
1935 - Born Donald Lynden Bell, Britain astronomer
1955 - Born Renate Brumer, astronaut / cosmonaut
1971 - Fran Phipps was the first woman at the North pole
1973 - Robotic probe Pioneer 11 is launched to Jupiter