Space History for April 22

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687 B.C.
Chinese astronomers recorded a meteor shower in Lyra.
ref: science.nasa.gov

1145
The ninteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet occurred, as calculated from records including ones by Chinese astronomers.
ref: adsabs.harvard.edu

1891
Born, Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer (Theory of Probability)
ref: en.wikipedia.org

1902
The Lunar crater Aristarchus exhibited a bright luminescence during the totality of a Lunar eclipse.
ref: en.wikipedia.org

1904
Born, J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of the Manhattan Project which developed the US atomic bomb
ref: en.wikipedia.org

1909
A. Kopff discovered asteroid #680 Genoveva.

1911
H. E. Wood discovered asteroid #715 Transvaalia.

1925
K. Reinmuth discovered asteroids #1042 Amazone and #1043 Beate.

1927
K. Reinmuth discovered asteroid #1209 Pumma.

1930
H. Van Gent discovered asteroid #1226 Golia.

1941
Y. Vaisala discovered asteroid #1567 Alikoski.

1964
The New York World's Fair opened at Flushing Meadow in Queens, New York. Among its features was the US Space Park exhibiting rocket mockups.

US Space Park at the 1964/65 New York World's Fair
Source: US National Archives and Records Administration via Wikipedia
ref: en.wikipedia.org

1974
C. Torres discovered asteroid #2976 Lautaro.

1983 13:29:00 GMT
USSR Soyuz T-8 landed after failing to dock with the Salyut 7 space station.
ref: nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov

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