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Date Story or event
   
2nd November, 1917 First Light for Mount Wilson 100" telescope
5th november, 1906 Birthday of Astronomer Fred Whipple

8th November, 1656

Birthday of Sir Emund Halley
9th November, 1934 Birthday of Carl Sagan
11th November, 1966 Launch of the Gemini XII spacecraft
14th November, 1930 birthday of NASA astronaut Edward H. White
(Gemini Astronaut, killed in the apollo fire of 1967)
14th November, 1969 Launch of apollo 12
15th November, 1738 Birthday of Sir William Herschel
18th November, 1923 Birthday of NASA Astronaut Alan Shepard
(Mercury & Apollo XIV astronaut)
20th November, 1998 First module of the international space station launched
23rd November, 1977 ESA launches its first satellite (Meteosat-1)
25th November, 1913 Anniversary of the death of Robert Stawell Ball
28th November, 1964 Mariner IV launched to Mars
29th November, 1889 Birthday of Edwin Hubble
30th November, 1549 Birth of Sir henry Savile (Founder of the Oxford Chair of Astronomy)
30th November, 1954 Elizabeth Hodges is hit by a meteorite