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Today In History - November 7 |
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1918 Goddard demonstrates his tube-launched solid propellant rockets… Goddard's most notable contributions: 1914: Patent No. 1,102,653, issued July 7. The patent was for a multi-stage rocket. 1914: Patent No. 1,103,503, issued July 14. The patent was for a rocket fueled by gasoline and liquid nitrous oxide. "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes" was published in 1919 by the Smithsonian Institute. It is a treatise by Goddard which discusses his theories, mathematical formulas, and forecasts for rocketry and space travel. The Goddard Space center was named in his honor. |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1598 Francisco de Zurbaran 1656 Walraad the Younger 1692 Johannes G. Schnabel 1706 Carlo Cecere 1797 Silas Horton Stringham 1806 August Friedrich Pott 1810 Ferenc Erkel 1810 Fritz Reuter 1828 Ludwig Deppe 1832 Andrew Dickson White 1839 Henry Holmes 1846 Ignaz Brull 1852 Bohdan Borkowski 1855 Edwin H. Hall 1856 Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin 1859 Hendrik G. Kleyn 1866 Carl Emil Paul Lincke 1866 Paul Lincke 1867 Marie Curie 1874 Joseph Willoughby 1876 Culbert Olson 1876 Ted Arnold 1877 Henry Balfour Gardiner 1878 Lise Meitner 1879 Leon Davidovitsj Trotsky 1886 Aaron Nimzowitsch 1888 Chandrasekhara Raman 1889 George Davis 1889 Lord Tennyson III 1895 Jakob Kaplan 1896 Herbert R. O'Connor 1897 Herman J. Mankiewicz 1897 Ruth Pitter 1900 Heinrich Himmler 1903 Dean Jagger 1903 Konrad Lorenz 1905 William Alwyn 1906 Eugene Carson Blake 1906 Jan Vercammen 1906 Margaret Barbara Lambert 1916 Joe Bushkin 1917 Andras Mihaly 1918 Billy Graham 1922 Al Hirt 1923 Matthew Coady 1924 Wolf Mankowitz 1926 Joan Sutherland 1927 Hiroshi Yamauchi 1929 Ruggero Mastroianni 1930 Peter Woods 1930 Rudy Boschwitz 1931 Gerald Humel 1932 Harry Lammertink 1936 Barry Newman 1936 Gwyneth Jones 1936 Jaap Stobbe 1938 Dee Clark 1938 James Katt 1942 Jean Shrimpton 1942 Johnny Rivers 1943 Joni Mitchell 1943 Judith Frost 1943 Wensley Haydon-Baillie 1944 James Hashow 1944 Jim Watkins 1944 Joe Niekro 1949 Judy Tenuda 1950 Alexa Canady 1951 Nick Gilder 1957 Christopher Knight 1957 Jonathan Palmer 1957 Kathy McMillan 1958 Jack Wyngaard 1961 Mintcho Pachov 1962 Arend Bouwmeester 1962 Wayne Norman Phillips 1963 John Barnes 1963 Michael Heidt 1963 Shelly Miller 1963 Todd McKee 1964 Dana Plato 1966 Andy Tomberlin 1966 Lisa Canning 1968 Russ Springer 1969 Bryant H. McGill 1970 Andre Hastings 1972 Christopher Daniel Barnes 1972 Clive B. Barnes 1972 Emily Porter Lesueur 1972 Jane Taylor 1972 Jeremy London 1972 Jimmy Gary 1974 Kris Benson 1974 Tarek Saleh 1975 Suesan Rajabi 1976 Mark Philippoussis 1976 Zahir Raheem 994 Muhammad ibn Hazm |
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On This Date in History |
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680 The 3rd Council of Constantinople opens 921 Treaty of Bonn 1512 The Medici's discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence 1558 French King Henri II occupies Calais 1581 Queen Elizabeth I marries Francois of Anjou 1597 Emilia of Nassau marries Dom Emanuel of Portugal 1631 Pierre Gassendi observes the transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler 1637 Anne Hutchinson is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a heretic 1659 Peace of Pyreneeen 1665 The first edition of the "London Gazette" 1733 France and Spain sign the Escoriaal Treaty 1775 Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join the British Army 1794 French troops conquer Nijmegen 1805 Lewis and Clark first sight the Pacific Ocean 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe 1820 James Monroe is elected the 5th U.S. president 1824 The St. Petersburg flood 1848 General Zachary Taylor is elected as president of US 1861 The Battle of Belmont, MO 1861 Battle of Port Royal Bay, South Carolina 1863 Battle of Rappahannock Station and Kelly's Ford, VA 1864 The second session of the Congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes 1865 The London Gazette is founded 1872 The U.S. cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from New York: it is found abandoned the following month 1874 The first cartoon depicting an elephant as the Republican Party symbol 1875 Verney Cameron is the first European to cross equatorial Africa 1876 Edward Bouchet is the first black to receive a PhD in a U.S. college 1876 Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennessee College 1876 President Rutherford B Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden both claim presidential victory: Tilden wins the election, but Electoral college selects Hayes 1885 The Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie 1893 The state of Colorado accepts female suffrage 1907 Dynamite explodes on a locomotive and kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico 1907 Test tokens are struck in the first production of Canadian coins 1908 The Dutch capture the Venezuelan navy 1909 Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama 1914 Japan attacks German concessions on the Chinese peninsula of Shanghai 1915 An Austrian submarine torpedoes an Italian passenger ship: 272 people are killed 1916 Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns the czar of an uprising 1916 Jeannette Rankin elected the first woman Representative 1916 Woodrow Wilson is re-elected president 1917 The British capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks 1917 October Revolution in Russia: Lenin seizes power 1918 Goddard demonstrates his tube-launched solid propellant rockets 1918 United Press erroneously reports that the WW I armistice had been signed 1919 The U.S. police raid the offices of the Union of Russian Workers 1928 Herbert Hoover is elected president 1929 The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City 1931 The Chinese People's Republic is proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung 1932 The first broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio 1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn a blue law by permitting Sunday sports 1934 Arthur L. Mitchell becomes the first black Democratic Congressman 1936 The Battle of Madrid begins 1942 The first U.S. president to broadcast in a foreign language: FDR in French 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt wins his 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey 1944 A train crashes in the tunnel of Aguadilla Spain: 500 people die 1949 King Faruk disbands the Egyptian parliament 1950 French women and children leave Hanoi 1951 Constitution of Jordan passes 1954 A U.S. spy plane is shot down North of Japan 1961 France performs an underground nuclear test at Ecker, Algeria 1963 Carole Joan Crawford of Jamaica, is crowned the 13th Miss World 1965 Marlene Hagge wins the LPGA Tall City Golf Open 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins the LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 is launched by the US 1967 Carl B. Stokes is elected the first black mayor of a major US city: Cleveland, Ohio 1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting 1967 Richard G. Hatcher is elected the mayor of Gary, Indiana 1968 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear tests at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R. 1970 Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida 1972 President Nixon is re-elected by defeating George McGovern 1973 New Jersey becomes the first state to allow girls into the little league 1973 The U.S. and Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links 1981 France performs a nuclear test 1982 Liz Taylor's 7th divorce: from John Warner 1982 Nancy Lopez wins the LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic 1982 Turkey adopts a constitution 1983 A bomb explodes in the U.S. Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries 1985 Colombian troops end a 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice 1988 Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde 1989 Douglas Wilder is elected the first U.S. black governor 1989 New York City elects its first black mayor: Dinkins 1990 Mary Robinson is elected as first female president of Ireland 1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus and retires from the Los Angeles Lakers 1993 Betsy King wins the LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament 1995 The Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on WXDX 105.9 FM 1996 Heisman Trophy winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times |
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