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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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