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- Here's some anniversaries in our FAs that we could celebrate by featuring here:
- January 1996, Comet Hyakutake discovered
- February 15, 1786, Cat's Eye Nebula discovered
- February 15, 1564, Galileo Galilei's birthday
- February 28, 1901, Linus Pauling's birthday
- March 1, 1966, first spacecraft crash-lands on Venus
- March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein's birthday
- March 24, 1993, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 discovered
- April 1, 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp at perihelion
- April 12, 1633, Galileo Galilei's trial starts
- April 22, 1904, Robert Oppenheimer's birthday
- April 24, 1990, Hubble Space Telescope launched
- April 30, 1777, Carl Friedrich Gauss's birthday
- May 11, 1918, Richard Feynman's birthday
- July 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
- July 16, 1945, Trinity test, named by Robert Oppenheimer
- July 23, 1995, Comet Hale-Bopp discovered
- November 1915, Albert Einstein formulates GR
- November 9, 1934, Carl Sagan's birthday
- November 9, 1676, using his first quantitative measurment of the speed of light, Ole Rømer accurately predicts the delay of eclipse of Io
- December 1610, Galileo Galilei observes phases of Venus
- December 1995, Hubble Deep Field images taken
- December 22, 1968, Apollo 8 launched
- The current physics FAs that haven't been recently featured and aren't on the above list are:
- Hopefully this'll get the ball rolling on picking new ones. — Laura Scudder | Talk 07:05, 27 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
