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[[1914]] – Royal Australian Navy submarine '''HMAS ''AE1''''' vanishes while on combat patrol near Papua New Guinea.  
 
[[1914]] – Royal Australian Navy submarine '''HMAS ''AE1''''' vanishes while on combat patrol near Papua New Guinea.  
 
* This begins one of Australia's longest naval mysteries: the sunken vessel will not be discovered for another 103 years.  <br>
 
* This begins one of Australia's longest naval mysteries: the sunken vessel will not be discovered for another 103 years.  <br>
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[[1936]] – Actor Walter Koenig ([[Pavel Chekov|Cmdr. Pavel Chekov]]) is born.  <br>
  
 
[[1958]] – Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach [[Earth]]'s upper [[atmosphere]]. <br>
 
[[1958]] – Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach [[Earth]]'s upper [[atmosphere]]. <br>

Revision as of 18:17, 9 May 2023

1914 – Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS AE1 vanishes while on combat patrol near Papua New Guinea.

  • This begins one of Australia's longest naval mysteries: the sunken vessel will not be discovered for another 103 years.

1936 – Actor Walter Koenig (Cmdr. Pavel Chekov) is born.

1958 – Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach Earth's upper atmosphere.

1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first human-made object to reach it.

2015 – The first Human observation of gravitational waves is made, a century after they were predicted.

  • These gravity waves —ripples in the fabric of spacetime— are believed to result from a cataclysmic event calculated as 1.3 billion light years away from Earth.