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. On this day in 1811 – March 11th – French mathematician and astronomer Urbain LeVerrier was born in Saint-Lô.LeVerrier's calculations enabled the Berlin Observatory to discover the planet Neptune..
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On this day in 1835 – March 12th – Canadian-American mathematician and astronomer Simon Newcomb was born in Wallace, Nova Scotia.
Newcomb made important contributions to international timekeeping and other fields in applied mathematics such as economics and statistics. He was a professor at the United States Naval Observatory and at Johns Hopkins.
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. On this day in 1781 – March 13th – William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus.He was the first person in history to discover a new planet..
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On this day in 1885 – March 13th – Percival Lowell was born in Boston, Massachusetts.
Lowell was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona and began the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.
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On this day in 1835 – March 14th – Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli was born in Savigliano.
Schiaparelli produced the most detailed map of Mars ever published, and it became a standard reference in planetary cartography. When he referred to canali (channels) on Mars, it was translated into English as canals, and Percival Lowell and others were convinced that there was an advanced civilization on Mars.
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On this day in 1879 – March 14th – Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany.
Einstein is definitely a man who needs no introduction.
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On this day in 1935 – March 14th – Apollo astronaut Eugene Cernan was born in Chicago, Illinois.
Cernan, the commander of Apollo 17, was the last man on the Moon.
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On this day in 2016 – March 14th – Part 1 of the joint ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars astrobiology mission was launched.
The launch of the spacecraft containing ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli lander was successful. (TGO is now in orbit around Mars, but the lander crashed.) The mission has seen been suspended due to political tensions regarding the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.
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. On this day in 1713 – March 15th – French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille was born in Rumigny.Lacaille was one of astronomy's greats. He surveyed nearly 10,000 stars in the southern hemisphere, and invented fourteen new constellations still in use today..
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. On this day in 1932 – March 15th – Apollo astronaut Alan Bean was born in Wheeler, Texas.Bean was the Apollo 12 lunar module pilot, and the fourth person to walk on the Moon..
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