On this day in history.

[scifan57]

May 10, 1960; Paul Hewson is born in Dublin, Ireland. You may know him better as Bono, U2 singer.

 

[J. A.]

May 11, 1987: In Baltimore, Maryland, the first heart–lung transplant takes place. The surgery is performed by Dr. Bruce Reitz of the Stanford University School of Medicine.

May 11, 1647: Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to replace Willem Kieft as Director-General of New Netherland, the Dutch colonial settlement in present-day New York City.

 

[J. A.]

May 11, 1918: Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel laureate, is born.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

 

[J. A.]

May 12, 1955: Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends.

 

[J. A.]

May 13, 1958: Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey

 

[scifan57]

May 13, 1607; 100 colonists arrive on the West Bank of the James River in Virginia to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America.

 

[J. A.]

May 14, 1973: Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.





Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab

 

[scifan57]

May 14, 1804; Lewis and Clark depart on their journey of exploration to the Pacific Ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carte_Lewis-Clark_Expedition-en.png

 

[scifan57]

May 14, 1796; Edward Jenner, an English country doctor performed the world's first vaccination as a way to prevent smallpox.

 

[J. A.]

May 15, 1618: Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).

 

[zstairlessone]

Pierre Curie born 15 May 1859;
French physical chemist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

 

[scifan57]

May 15, 1756; the Seven Years War begins when England declares war on France.

 

[scifan57]

May 15, 1962; astronaut Gordon Cooper is launched into space aboard Faith 7, the 6th and last flight of the Mercury program. He completed 22 orbits over a span of 34 hours and became the first American to spend more than a day in space. He was also the last American to travel alone into space.

 

[zstairlessone]

May 15, 1962; astronaut Gordon Cooper is launched into space aboard Faith 7, the 6th and last flight of the Mercury program. He completed 22 orbits over a span of 34 hours and became the first American to spend more than a day in space. He was also the last American to travel alone into space.

After watching Chris Hadfield I can see why they send chaperones

 

[J. A.]

May 16, 2011: STS-134 (ISS assembly flight ULF6), launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the 25th and final flight for Space Shuttle Endeavour.