1997 Manfred Von Ardenne, German scientific pioneer, dies at 90
1997 Pioneer 10, ends its mission
1996 Charles Edwin Molnar, computer pioneer, dies at 61
1996 Jean-Pierre Guerlain, cosmetics pioneer, dies at 91
1996 Michael Jinks, child care pioneer, dies at 59
1996 Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot, dies at 93
1996 Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer, dies at 91
1996 Audrey Angers, charity pioneer
1995 Manfred Donike, chemist Drug Test pioneer, dies at 61
1995 Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82
1994 Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer, dies at 76
1994 Andrew Miller-Jones TV pioneer, dies at 84
1994 Marino Iandioro, canned tomato pioneer, dies at 64
1994 Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84
1994 Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer, dies at 84
1994 Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer, dies at 90
1994 Johan Block, Dutch aviation pioneer (Martinair/Transavia), dies at 64
1994 Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer, dies at 92
1992 John G Kemeny, U.S. computer pioneer (BASIC), dies
1992 Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
1991 Leigh Watson, U.S. aviation pioneer/air force general, dies at 93
1991 Jef Contryn, Flemish pioneer puppet theatre, dies at 89
1991 Corrie Hartong, dance pioneer, dies
1989 Charles A Hufnagel, doc (artificial heart valve pioneer), dies at 72
1988 Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies
1988 Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1984 George Gallup, pioneer of public opinion polls, dies
1983 Pioneer 10 is 1st man-made object to leave Solar System
1982 Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1981 Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament
1981 Donald W. Douglas, U.S. aircraft pioneer/builder, dies at 88
1979 Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings
1979 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
1978 Pioneer Venus 2 drops 5 probes into atmosphere of Venus
1978 Pioneer Venus 1 begins orbiting Venus
1978 Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
1978 Pioneer 11 transmits images of Saturn and its rings
1978 U.S. launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus
1974 Pioneer Hall opens
1973 Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter
1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) [Dec 4-GMT]
1973 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO, dies at 84
1973 Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter and Saturn
1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter
1973 Edward Steichen, pioneer of U.S. photography, dies at 93
1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby
1971 David Sarnoff, U.S. TV pioneer (RCA), dies at 80
1971 Philo T Farnsworth, U.S. TV pioneer, dies at 64
1969 Pioneer 10 launched
1967 U.S. launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
1966 Margaret Sanger, U.S. feminist/birth control pioneer, dies at 86
1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
1966 Pioneer 7 launched
1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated
1965 Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
1963 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer, dies
1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth and Venus
1959 Ranjan Madugalle, cricketer, pioneer of Sri Lanka's Test teams
1959 Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
1959 U.S. Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (U.S. 1st) artificial planet
1959 1st U.S. probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
1958 Brand Dirck Ochse, film/bioscope pioneer (Polygoon), dies at 66
1958 U.S. lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
1958 2nd U.S. Moon probe, Pioneer 1, reaches 113,810 km, falls back
1958 Marie Stopes, birth control pioneer, dies
1958 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker), dies at 84
1955 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70
1955 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
1954 Auguste Lumiere, French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81
1953 Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64
1952 William Fox, [Fried], U.S. film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73
1948 Orville Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, dies at 76
1945 Robert H Goddard, U.S., rocket pioneer, dies at 62
1945 Robert Goddard, Rocket pioneer, dies
1942 Desmond Dekker, [Dacris], Jamaica, reggae pioneer, Aces-Israelites
1941 Earnest Udet, German general/head air pioneer, commits suicide
1941 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, pioneer jazz pianist, dies in LA at 56
1940 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens
1940 Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80
1938 Truby King, pioneer of mothercraft, dies
1937 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43
1936 Michael Jinks, child care pioneer
1935 Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36
1933 Manfred Donike, chemist drug test pioneer
1933 Frederick Henry Royce, motorcar pioneer, dies
1931 Daniel H Williams, doctor (pioneer in surgery), dies
1930 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer/airplane builder, dies at 52
1929 Marino Iandioro, canned Tomato Pioneer
1929 Johan N Block, aviation pioneer, Martinair/Transavia/Air Holland
1928 Bo Diddley, [Ellas Bates], Mississippi, rock 'n' roll pioneer, Bo Diddley
1926 Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual
1923 Norman E. Shumway, born in Michigan, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon
1923 Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer
1921 Geo Mestdagh, Belgian aviation pioneer, dies
1920 John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies
1918 Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer
1917 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78
1916 Robert A Bruce, Maryland, pioneer, exercise cardiology
1915 James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies
1915 Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65
1912 Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory, Turing Machine
1912 Wilbur Wright, U.S. aviation pioneer, dies
1912 Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival Pioneer
1910 Mahomed Nissar, cricketer, pioneer Indian opening bowler in Tests
1910 Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer
1910 Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer
1910 Charlotte Auerbach, computer Pioneer/Mathematician
1910 Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies
1909 Jean Batten, NZ air pioneer (1st woman to fly solo Australia-
1909 Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65
1908 Michael E DeBakey, artificial heart pioneer
1906 Willa B Brown, Coffey, U.S. black air pioneer, NAAA
1905 Jean-Pierre Guerlain, cosmetics pioneer
1905 Anne Schumacher Hummert, radio pioneer
1904 John Simon, public health pioneer, dies
1904 Charles Richard Drew, pioneer of blood plasma research
1904 Naoomal Jeoomal, cricketer, pioneer Indian Test opening batsman
1904 B[urrhus] F[rederic] Skinner, Pennsylvania, Behaviorism pioneer, Skinner box
1903 Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer
1903 Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot
1902 Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer
1900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
1900 Graham Spry, St. Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer
1899 Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer
1897 Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography
1897 Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, pioneer Australian aviator
1896 Philip L Carret, Lynn Massachusetts, CEO, Pioneer Fund
1896 Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies
1896 Jean Piaget, born in Switzerland, pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist
1896 Otto Lilenthal, aircraft pioneer, killed during a glider test at 48
1894 Lloyd A. Hall, born in Illinois, pioneer in food chemistry
1894 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, Swiss Air
1892 Edmond Thieffry, Belgian WW I pilot/air pioneer
1892 Donald Wills Douglas, U.S., aircraft pioneer, McConnell Douglas
1891 H V Porter, basketball pioneer, created fan shape backboard
1891 David Sarnoff, U.S., radio/TV pioneer/CEO, RCA
1891 Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies
1890 Edwin Howard Armstrong, New York City, radio pioneer inventor, FM
1890 Jack Cusack, pro football pioneer, Canton Bulldogs
1890 Cyril Rutherford "Snuffy" Browne, cricketer, pioneer WI Test player
1890 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, born in Holland, aircraft pioneer, Spider
1890 Anton Hermann Fokker, avation pioneer
1889 Abel Gance, French film pioneer/actor, Napoleon, J'accuse
1889 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director, KLM
1888 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder, AVRO
1885 Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer
1885 Eugen Herrigel, Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe
1885 Fred Burnaby, English colonel/balloon pioneer, dies in battle
1884 Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61
1883 Lester Patrick, NHL pioneer
1883 Jan Olieslagers, Belgian aviation pioneer, Antwerp Devil
1882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, Worcester Massachusetts, rocket pioneer
1880 Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer
1879 William Fox, U.S. film pioneer, Nickelodeon
1877 Bernard Bosanquet, cricketer, pioneer of googly
1877 William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, dies at 77
1876 Clifford Whittingham Beers, U.S., mental hygiene pioneer
1874 Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer, double decker
1869 Frederik W. Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68
1866 George Shillibeer, pioneer of London's 1st bus service, dies
1866 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in U.S. chemical industry, Dow Chemical
1865 Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies
1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor, tackling dummy
1860 Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer, Nipkow Award
1857 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of 1st U.S. autos
1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket and space research
1856 Booker Taliaferro Washington, pioneer educator, 1st black on U.S. stamp
1854 Bill Murdoch, cricketer, great pioneer of Australian Test cricket
1851 Oliver Joseph Lodge, born in England, early radio pioneer
1850 Ebenezer Howard, London, pioneer of garden cities
1849 Albert J-BJ Th˜s, Belgian colonial pioneer, Congo
1849 Ivan Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology, Nobel 1904
1848 Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator
1846 William Fox Talbot, pioneer photographer/inventor
1844 Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer, 1st railway Congo.
1840 John Philip Holland, Liscannor Ireland, pioneer in submarine building
1840 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake, pioneer English woman physician
1838 Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull), murdered at 40
1836 Maria L Sanford, pioneer educator, PTA
1836 Davy Crockett, U.S. pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at 49
1836 Fannie M Jackson, pioneer and educator, 1st U.S. Black woman college grad
1834 Lionel Lukin, life boat pioneer, dies
1834 William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer
1831 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer, Studebaker
1828 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology
1825 Ann Bailey, pioneer, dies
1824 Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book
1815 Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer, use of ether
1815 Robert Fulton, steamboat pioneer, dies
1813 Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder, The Time
1812 Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer
1804 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
1800 Frederik W. Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer
1800 William Henry Fox Talbot, Wiltshire England, photographic pioneer
1797 Joseph Henry, U.S., scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism
1797 Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer, Great Pull
1788 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer/physicist
1788 Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga
1787 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, Philadelphia, pioneer of educating the deaf
1785 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
1784 John McLoughlin, Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country
1783 Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader
1782 Charles Waterton, eccentric naturalist/pioneer
1754 Benjamin Waterhouse, physician, smallpox vaccine pioneer
1745 Jacques Montgolfier, France, aeronaut, 1st pioneer balloonist
1745 James Montgolfier, France, aeronaut, 1st pioneer balloonist
1736 Robert Raikes, England, Sunday school pioneer
1619 Olivier de Serres, French farming pioneer (silkworms), dies
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