2014 Event Water vapor on the minor planet Ceres, the largest asteroid and the only dwarf planet in the inner Solar System, is detected by European Space Agency researchers 1959 Birthday John Arthur Wilson, Ceres California, PGA golfer, 1994 Anheuser-Busch-4th 1893 Birthday Edgar Dearing, bron in Ceres, California, actor, Abraham Lincoln, Free and Easy 1801 Event Giuseppe Piazzi discovers 1st asteroid, which is named Ceres later 1746 Birthday Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk, mathematician, and discoverer, discovers 1st asteroid, Ceres