October 06

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1903Physicist Ernest Walton is born. He, alongside John Cockcroft, won the Nobel Prize in 1951 for splitting the atom.
1995Star "51 Pegasi" is discovered by Humans to be the first major star, apart from their Sun, to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it. The planet in question turns out to be roughly 160 times the mass of Earth.