• 1912: Birth of Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), German engineer who was a pioneer in all aspects of rocketry and space exploration and famous for designing Hitler's V-2 “Vergeltungswaffe” (reprisal weapon) rockets during World War II as well as the development of the Saturn 1 and the Saturn V boosters, the Gemini managed-flight project, and the Apollo Moon Flight project.
• 1919: Benito Mussolini formed the Italian Fascist Party (Fasci di Combattimento) in Milan. He called this force a Fasci di Combattimento, a group of persons bound together by ties as close as those that secured the ‘fascinae’ of the ‘lictors’- the symbols of ancient Roman authority. This was the birth of Fascism and its symbol.
• 1962: Birth of Sir Steven Redgrave (1962-), British athlete who is a five time Olympic rowing champion and the only person to win a medal at five consecutive Olympics in an endurance sport (others have won, but in riding and fencing).
• 1980: Indian badminton ace Prakash Padukone became the first Indian to win the All England Badminton Championship when he beat Indonesia's Liem Swie King in the final.
• 1989: The cold fusion hoax! Two Utah scientists Martin Fleischmann and Stan Pons announced in Utah that they had produced fusion at room temperature. Efforts to replicate the work failed no were there any tell-tale signs of nuclear processes, notably subatomic particles (neutrons).
{{/usCountry}}• 1989: The cold fusion hoax! Two Utah scientists Martin Fleischmann and Stan Pons announced in Utah that they had produced fusion at room temperature. Efforts to replicate the work failed no were there any tell-tale signs of nuclear processes, notably subatomic particles (neutrons).
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