1889 Edwin Powell Hubble – US astronomer, born in Marshfield, Missouri. Hubble changed our view of the Universe with his revolutionary theory that the Universe is expanding, when in 1929 he was able to show that galaxies are moving away from us. The Hubble Space Telescope is named after him

I was curious to see if the Hubble Space Telescope is still out there or if it crashed so I asked Google.

Yes, the Hubble Space Telescope is in space. It was launched on April 24, 1990, and is designed to operate above Earth's atmosphere, allowing it to make high-resolution observations of celestial objects. Hubble has been maintained in space by astronauts through several servicing missions, ensuring its continued operation.


1947 Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten were wed in a ceremony that was recorded for broadcast world-wide. In a lavish wedding at Westminster Abbey in London, Princess Elizabeth married her distant cousin, Philip Mountbatten, a dashing young prince from the exiled Greek royal family. Philip had fought as a British naval officer during World War II. Elizabeth Windsor, the future Queen Elizabeth II, was twenty-one and Prince Philip, who was made the Duke of Edinburgh on the eve of the wedding, was twenty-six. The celebrations surrounding the wedding of the popular princess lifted the spirits of the people of Britain, who were suffering from serious economic difficulties in the aftermath of the war

I miss her.