1715 – During an eclipse in England
Edmond Halley is the first to report the phenomenon later known as Baily’s Beads; also notes bright red prominences and the east-west asymmetry in the corona, which he attributes to an atmosphere on the Moon or Sun.
2007 – Death of Wally Schirra, American Astronaut born in Hackensack, New Jersey. He was one of the first seven astronauts chosen by NASA and he flew to space three times. Time in space 12d 7h 12m; Mercury-Atlas 8, Gemini 6A, Apollo 7.
1998 – Landing of Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-90 at Kennedy Space Center following a successful 15-day mission where the primary payload was the Neurolab Spacelab module, the final Spacelab mission.
1779 – Death of John Winthrop, Physicist, Astronomer, Educator who was a foremost scientist in early America. He observed the transits of Mercury in 1740 and 1761 and journeyed to Newfoundland to observe a transit of Venus in 1761.
