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Space History for March 20

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The sixth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet occurred.

1345
A conjuction of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars occured which, at the time, was thought to be the cause of the plague epidemic.

1727
Died, Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and alchemist

1883
The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property was signed, providing that intellectual property systems, including patents, of any contracting state are accessible to the nationals of other states party to the Convention.

1890
J Palisa discovered asteroid #290 Bruna.

1904
M Wolf discovered asteroids #527 Euryanthe, #528 Rezia and #529 Preziosa.

1906
A Kopff discovered asteroid #593 Titania.

1906
Born, Pavel P Parenago, Russian astronomer

1907
J H Metcalf discovered asteroid #792 Metcalfia.

1914
J H Metcalf discovered asteroid #784 Pickeringia.

1915
J Comas Sola discovered asteroid #804 Hispania; and M Wolf discovered asteroids #800 Kressmannia, #801 Helwerthia and #802 Epyaxa.

1916
Albert Einstein officially published his general theory of relativity

1934
Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrated the first practical radar apparatus in Kiel, Germany.

1938
A Wachmann discovered asteroid #1465 Autonoma; and M B Protitch discovered asteroids #1517 Beograd and #1675 Simonida.

1950
M Itzigsohn discovered asteroid #1571 Cesco.

1952
L Boyer discovered asteroid #1617 Alschmitt.

1955
A Paroubek discovered asteroid #1989 Tatry.

1959
The first successful reception of radar return signals from Venus was announced by MIT scientists.

1960
Asteroid #2103 was discovered.

1964
The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) was established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.

1979
NASA's Columbia orbiter flew on the Shuttle carrier aircraft to Kennedy Space Center.

1982
H Debehogne discovered asteroid #3002.

1985
A Mrkos discovereda asteroid #3326.

1987
NASA launched Palapa B2P.

1999 04:54:00 EST (GMT -5:00:00)
Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Brian Jones of Britain became the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
http://www.ballonfahren.org/balloonquest990320.html

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