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Events
- June 30: An unmanned Vulcan robot probe in the Sol system diverts a cometary fragment heading for a highly populated area of central Europe, directing it instead toward a sparsely populated region of Siberia, near Tunguska.[1]
- Ernest Rutherford receives the Nobel Prize for chemistry.[2]
Births and deaths
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- 20 May
- James Stewart born.[2]
- 27 August
- Lyndon B. Johnson born.[2]
- 4 September
- Richard Wright born.[3][2]
- 30 September
- Archibald Dumont born.[4]
- Unknown date
- Jeffrey Carlson born.[5]
Appendices
References and Notes
- ↑ TOS novel: Prime Directive.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Historical fact.
- ↑ ST reference: The Star Trek Encyclopedia
- ↑ TOS - Assignment: Earth comic: "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns"
- ↑ TOS novel: From History's Shadow
External links
- 1908 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- 1908 article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.