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Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/February

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Selected anniversaries in February

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  • 1966 - The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon





  • 1979 - Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered
  • 1957 - Death of John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)


February 10:










  • 1916 - Death of Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)








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