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IYA2009 begins
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(1925) Hubble announces discovery of Cepheids in spiral nebulae
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(1839) Daguerre takes first photograph of the Moon.
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(1610) Galileo discovered the first moons of Jupiter.
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(1839) Thomas Henderson is the first person to measure the distance to a star other than the Sun, Alpha Centauri.
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(1946) US Army's Signal Corps successfully bounces the first radar waves off the Moon.
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Full Moon
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(1787) Uranus' moons Titania and Oberon discovered by William Herschel.
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(1830) The founding of a new organization, which in 1831 would become the Royal Astronomical Society, by John Herschel, Charles Babbage, James South, and several others.
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(1742) Edmund Halley born in Greenwich, England.
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(1967) Fire broke out in the Command Module of Apollo 1 during tests. Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White II and Roger Chaffee, all died.
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(1986) Space shuttle Challenger explodes during ascent killing all seven astronauts on board.
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(1966) Launch of Luna 9. It landed on the lunar surface and returned the first surface photographs.
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