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2003 Jenifer Estess, activist/producer, founded Project A.L.S, dies at 40

2000 Robert Rathburn Wilson, nuclear physicist, a leader of the Manhattan Project, dies at 82

1992 Microwave Observing Project begins (seeking alien life)

1984 President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project

1973 Heidi Klum, born in Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, model, Victoria's Secret 'Angel', television host, fashion designer, television producer 'Project Runway'

1970 Jennifer Rothschild, Rubin, actress, Judas Project

1969 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings

1968 Christopher Collett, born in New York City, actor, Manhattan Project

1964 Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project

1964 Raphael Sbarge, actor, Risky Business, My Science Project, Werewolf

1963 Fisher Stevens, Chicago, actor, My Science Project, Short Circuit

1963 Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched

1961 Kip Winger, born in Denver, Colorado, Charles Frederick Kip Winger, musician, songwriter, bass guitarist, hard rock, heavy metal, classical, experimental genres, lead singer, Alan Parsons Project, played with Alice Cooper, had band called, Winger, released new CD, 2008

1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power

1960 Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center

1959 Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts

1959 NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury

1958 1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip

1958 U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury

1958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA

1957 Ronald Shusett, Hamburg Germany, author, Project Mankind

1955 Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel

1954 Jeffrey Sachs, born in Detroit, Michigan, Jeffrey David Sachs, economist, founder, co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance to end extreme poverty and hunger, Senior Advisor to the Global Poverty Project

1954 Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project

1953 Black families move into Trumbull Park housing project in Chicago

1953 Margaret L. Augustine, born in Buffalo, New York, project manager, Biosphere 2

1947 Jill Eikenberry, New Haven, Connecticut, Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project

1942 Paul Horowitz, New York City, physicist, META project, Sloan Award 1971-3

1942 Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"

1935 W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in New York City

1908 Edward Teller, born in Budapest, Hungary, fathered H-bomb, Manhattan Project

1907 Barbara Morrison, Weston-Super-Mare England, actress, Project Moonbase

1904 J. Robert Oppenheimer, born in New York, head of Manhattan, A-bomb, Project

1902 Edward Uhler Condon, atomic scientist, Manhattan Project


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