Portal talk:Physics/Anniversaries

Here's some anniversaries in our FAs that we could celebrate by featuring here:

January 1996, Comet Hyakutake discovered
February 15, 1786, Cat's Eye Nebula discovered
February 15, 1564, Galileo Galilei's birthday
February 28, 1901, Linus Pauling's birthday
March 1, 1966, first spacecraft crash-lands on Venus
March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein's birthday
March 24, 1993, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 discovered
April 1, 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp at perihelion
April 12, 1633, Galileo Galilei's trial starts
April 22, 1904, Robert Oppenheimer's birthday
April 24, 1990, Hubble Space Telescope launched
April 30, 1777, Carl Friedrich Gauss's birthday
May 11, 1918, Richard Feynman's birthday
July 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
July 16, 1945, Trinity test, named by Robert Oppenheimer
July 23, 1995, Comet Hale-Bopp discovered
November 1915, Albert Einstein formulates GR
November 9, 1934, Carl Sagan's birthday
November 9, 1676, using his first quantitative measurment of the speed of light, Ole Rømer accurately predicts the delay of eclipse of Io
December 1610, Galileo Galilei observes phases of Venus
December 1995, Hubble Deep Field images taken
December 22, 1968, Apollo 8 launched

The current physics FAs that haven't been recently featured and aren't on the above list are:

Hopefully this'll get the ball rolling on picking new ones. — Laura Scudder | Talk 07:05, 27 October 2005 (UTC)Reply