2006 Pluto is demoted to a 'dwarf planet'
2002 Jack Haldeman, science fiction writer, Perry's Planet, dies at 60
1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
1998 Roddy McDowall, actor/photographer, Planet of the Apes, dies at 70
1991 University of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of solar system
1991 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
1989 Voyager 2 begins a flyby of planet Neptune
1986 Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil's Planet), dies at 82
1985 Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley's comet
1984 1st planet outside our solar system discovered
1984 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet), dies of strokes at 87
1984 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs. Miniver), dies at 87
1983 D Mack Reynolds, U.S. writer (Amazon Planet, Once Departed), dies
1979 Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
1977 Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, U.S., sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72
1975 Venera 9, 1st craft to orbit planet Venus launched
1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) [Dec 4-GMT]
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet
1972 "Hot Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9
1971 Walter Sande, actor (Red Planet Mars), dies of heart attack at 65
1971 Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars)
1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1969 U.S.S.R. Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
1968 C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws), dies at 85
1966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus)
1965 Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
1964 H[enry] Beam Piper, U.S., sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60
1962 Mariner 2 makes 1st U.S. fly-by of another planet (Venus)
1962 Patrica Morrison, rocker, Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet
1959 Andrew Eldritch, rocker, Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet
1959 U.S. Pioneer IV misses Moon and becomes 2nd (U.S. 1st) artificial planet
1950 John Sayles, born in Schenetady, New York, actor, Brother from Another Planet
1948 Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet
1948 Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist, Commander Cody and Lost Planet Airmen
1945 Linda Harrison, born in Berlin, Maryland, actress, Bracken's World, Planet of Apes
1944 Commander Cody, singer/pianist, Commander Cody and Lost Planet Airmen
1940 Paul Williams, born in Omaha, Nebraska, singer/composer/actor, Planet of the Apes
1935 Alex Harvey, rocker, Just Visiting This Planet
1935 Robert Silverberg, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Regan's Planet
1935 Ron Harper, Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, actor, Wendy and Me, Planet of the Apes
1930 Anne Francis, born in Ossining, New York, actress, Honey West, Forbidden Planet
1930 Planet Pluto named
1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
1928 Roddy McDowall, London England, actor, Planet of Apes, Lord Love a Duck
1923 Charlton Heston, Illinois, actor, 10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of Apes
1922 Kim Hunter, [Janet Cole], Det, Michigan, actress, Planet of the Apes, Lilith
1922 Leslie Nielsen, Regina Sask, actor, Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun
1918 Ted Post, Director, Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1916 Robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, U.S., sci-fi author, Puzzle Planet
1916 David Brown, born in New York City, director, Jaws, Planet of the Apes
1916 Mort Abrahams, producer, Dr. Doolittle, Planet Of Apes
1915 Saul Bellow, born in Lachine, Quebec, author, Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976
1914 Saul Bellow, born in Quebec, novelist, Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet
1913 Les Tremayne, London, actor, Angry Red Planet, War of the Worlds
1907 Robert A[nson] Heinlein, U.S., sci-fi author, 4 Hugos, Red Planet
1904 Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, U.S., sci-fi author, Danger Planet
1903 Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author, After Dark, Devil's Planet
1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan
1859 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1841 John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
1613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune
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