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2010 Event - The brightest object in the night sky next to the Moon is the planet Jupiter, as it makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963

2009 Death - Chuck Daly, basketball coach, head coach, successful 14-year NBA career included leading Detroit Pistons to two NBA Championships, led Dream Team to win gold at 1992 Summer Olympics, dies at 78 in Jupiter, Florida

2000 Event - Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon

1997 Death - Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer, co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy comet that had a spectacular collision with Jupiter in 1994, dies at 69

1995 Event - U.S. space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter

1994 Event - 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter, since July 16th

1994 Event - Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd)

1994 Event - Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter

1994 Event - 1st parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter (until July 22nd)

1994 Event - Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter

1992 Event - Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)

1992 Event - Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter

1983 Event - Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io

1983 Death - Vaughn Taylor, actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72

1979 Event - Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter

1979 Event - Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14)

1979 Event - Voyager 1 passes Jupiter

1979 Event - 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Io, a satellite of Jupiter

1979 Event - Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)

1979 Event - U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings

1977 Event - Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

1977 Event - Voyager 1 (U.S.) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn

1977 Event - NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

1974 Event - Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter

1973 Event - Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter

1973 Event - Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)

1973 Event - Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter and Saturn

1973 Event - Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter

1972 Event - Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby

1962 Event - Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn within 16 degrees

1961 Death - P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies

1959 Event - Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission

1958 Event - USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's

1951 Event - S. B. Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter

1936 Birthday - Donald [Anthony] Moffitt, U.S., sci-fi author, Jupiter Theft

1927 Birthday - Dany Robin, actress, Follow the Boys, Topaz, Jupiter, Julietta

1923 Death - Edward E Barnard, U.S. astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), dies at 65

1908 Event - Pasiphae, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte

1905 Event - Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara

1905 Event - Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine

1892 Event - E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon

1857 Birthday - Edward Emerson Barnard, born in Tennessee, astronomer, Jupiter's 5th satellite

1840 Birthday - Constance Fenimore Woolson, born in New Hampshire, writer, Jupiter Lights

1837 Birthday - Henry Draper, born in Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer, Moon, Jupiter

1711 Birthday - Jupiter Hammon, 1st American black to publish poetry, Complete Works

1630 Event - Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface

1610 Event - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter

1610 Event - Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede

1610 Event - German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610

1345 Event - Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic"

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