2014 – NASA‘s Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
1998 – 
Dafydd (Dave) Rhys Williams (M.D.) goes to space as Mission Specialist 3 aboard STS-90 Neurolab. During the 16-day Spacelab flight the seven person crew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia served as both experiment subjects and operators for 26 individual life science experiments focusing on the effects of microgravity on the brain and nervous system. The STS-90 flight orbited the Earth 256 times, covered 6.3 million miles, and logged him over 381 hours in space. Dave Williams was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
STS-90 Crew Richard A. Searfoss, Scott D. Altman, Dafydd Williams, Kathryn P. Hire, Richard M. Linnehan, Jay C. Buckey, James A. Pawelczyk
1993 – STS-56 Discovery lands at KSC. A mission to perform special experiments in the ATLAS-2 laboratory. It was Discovery’s 16th flight. The mission was launched from Kennedy Space Center, on April 8, 1993.
1970 – Apollo 13 spacecraft crew aboard U.S.S. Iwo Jima, after a harrowing mission, returns to Earth safely. Before reentry the service module was jettisoned and an image was taken of the damaged module.
1967 – Surveyor 3 Launch at 07:05:00 UTC. This was the second spacecraft in the Surveyor series to achieve a soft landing on the Moon. Soil samples and images were taken.
Birthdays
1964 – Andrei Ivanovich Borisenko a Russian engineer cosmonaut. Selection Group: 2003 RKKE Group
Soyuz TMA-21 (Expedition 27/28), Soyuz MS-02 (Expedition 49/50) Time in Space: 337 days 8 hours 57 minutes
1958 – Sergei Yuriyevich Vozovikov of Kazakhstan was a Russian cosmonaut. He drowned during recovery training in the Black Sea on July 11, 1993.
1598 – Giovanni Battista Riccioli who is known for, among other things, introducing the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
