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 Today's Moon
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Events at the moon age 5 day
| Aug 27, 1998 |
Gamma ray from twenty thousand light-years away reached the earth disturbing radio broadcast for a few minutes. |
| Jul 10, 1997 |
Tutor Makoto Hattori of Tohoku Univ. and other members of Japan/Germany research team discovered dark galaxy cluster near Altair. |
| Feb 12, 1997 |
The world's first VLBI satellite "Haruka" was launched by M-V rocket. |
| Jan 17, 1994 |
Earthquake in Los Angeles, U.S.A |
| Jan 27, 1993 |
Akebono became the first sumo wrestler from another country to be titled "Yukozuna". |
| May 10, 1989 |
Masako Izumi became the first Japanese woman to reach to the North Pole. |
| Sep 19, 1985 |
Earthquake in Mexico killed 8,000 people. |
| Jul 22, 1985 |
The most massive galaxy cluster with a diameter of a billion light-years was discovered. |
| Feb 7, 1984 |
Astronaut B. MacAndless made the first free, untethered spacewalk.
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| Mar 29, 1982 |
Great eruption of El Chichon, Mexico |
| Jan 14, 1978 |
Earthquake in the sea off Izu Oshima Isalnd, Japan |
| Jul 2, 1976 |
Unification of Vietnam |
| Jul 16, 1972 |
At Nagoya sumo tournament, Takamiyama became the first sumo wrestler from another country to win championship. |
| Feb 11, 1970 |
"Osumi", the first Japanese-made satellite, was launched. |
| Dec 24, 1968 |
The U.S. Apollo 8 became the first manned spaceship in the lunar orbit. |
| Mar 18, 1964 |
Hayakawa Electric Company (present Sharp Corporation) developed the world's first electronic calculator, which was priced \500,000/unit. |
| Jul 26, 1963 |
Skopje Earthquake in Macedonia, Yugoslavia |
| Oct 7, 1959 |
The USSR lunar explorer Luna 3 first photographed 70% of the far side of the moon. |
| Feb 25, 1947 |
174 died in a train overturn on Hachikou Line, a local line in Eastern Japan. |
| Jan 25, 1939 |
Chillan Earthquake in Chile, South America |
| Dec 28, 1908 |
Earthquake of Messina, Italy |
| Jul 2, 1900 |
Von Zeppelin made the first flight of an airship. |
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