1918 World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as “The Red Baron”, is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France.
And despite being dead since 1918, The Red Baron continued to plague Snoopy as he flew in his Sopwith Camel for decades to come.
He may have been a decent fielder, but he was a lousy hitter. Casey Stengel (the legendary manager) used to say of him that he could speak eight languages but he couldn’t hit in any of them. “The Catcher Was A Spy” is a pretty good biography of Berg.
1994 The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomer Alexander Wolszczan.
Mighty fine telescope you’ve got there, Alex.
Actually, the first exoplanets weren’t discovered through direct observation but through the effect their gravity had on their stars. That’s why the first exoplanets to be discovered were large planets (think multi-Jovian masses) orbiting very close to their stars.
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