1910
Sep 3
| 1910 • Comet Halley is visible from Earth. It won't be seen again until 1986. |
1928
Nov 26
Age: 18y
marriageAngus Arthur McGinnis Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1928 • Al Smith accepts the Democratic presidential nomination, with WGY/W2XB simulcasting the event on radio and television. |
1929
Oct
Age: 19y
birth of childEleanor L McGinnis |
| 1929 • First appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement, Le Petit Vingtième. |
1935
Age: 24y
birth of childPatricia McGinnis Seattle, King, Washington, USA ⇓ |
| 1935 • October 16 Mr. Bernard Tussaud finishes the wax figure of Lady Alice Scott and the Duke of Gloucester. |
1940
Age: 29y
| 1940 • The Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republics are proclaimed in Moscow. |
2002
Sep 12
Age: 92y
| 2002 • The Envisat environmental satellite successfully reaches an orbit 800 km above the Earth using an Ariane 5 on its 11th launch, carrying the heaviest payload to date at 8,500 kg. |