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RE: September 11th

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NGC Discovered

NGC 108 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 11th September 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58525723/ngc-108/

NGC 315 is an elliptical galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 11th September 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58525719/ngc-315/

William Herschel catalogued NGC 604 on September 11, 1784, as H III.150
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58525713/ngc-604/

IC 4660 is a spiral galaxy discovered by Isaac Roberts on the 11th September 1895.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58525669/ic-4660/

NGC 6667 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by Lewis A. Swift on the 11th September 1883.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58525648/ngc-6667/

Messier 2 is a globular star cluster recorded by Charles Messier on the 11th September 1760.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58525628/messier-2/

NGC 7315 is an elliptical galaxy discovered by Edouard Stephan on the 11th September 1872.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58525603/ngc-7315/

NGC 7342 is a face-on barred spiral galaxy discovered by Edouard Stephan on the 11th September 1872.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58525577/ngc-7342/

NGC 7345 is a spiral galaxy discovered by Edouard Stephan on the 11th September 1872.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58525566/ngc-7345/

NGC 7392 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 11th September 1787.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58525559/ngc-7392/

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Asteroid (125) Liberatrix was discovered by Prosper Henry on September 11, 1872 from Paris.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/125_Liberatrix

Asteroid (202) Chryseïs was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on September 11, 1879 in Clinton, New York.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/202_Chryse%C3%AFs

Asteroid (317) Roxane was discovered by Auguste Charlois from Nice on September 11, 1891.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/317_Roxane

Asteroid (434) Hungaria was discovered by Max Wolf on September 11, 1898 at the University of Heidelberg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/434_Hungaria

Asteroid (435) Ella was discovered by Max Wolf and A. Schwassmann on September 11, 1898 in Heidelberg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/435_Ella

Leda, a prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter, was discovered on the 11th September 1974
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leda_(moon)

Meteorite falls

The Arbol Solo (H5) meteorite fell in San Luis, Argentina, on the 11th September 1954.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44919804/arbol-solo-meteorite/

The Karatu (LL6) meteorite fell in Arusha, Tanzania, on the 11th September 1963.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44919815/karatu-meteorite/

The Undulung (L4) meteorite fell in Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya), Russia, on the 11th September 1986.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t54918167/undulung-meteorite/

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People

Gherman Stepanovich Titov (September 11, 1935 - September 20, 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44919737/gherman-stepanovich-titov-1935-2000/

Robert Laurel Crippen (born September 11, 1937 in Beaumont, Texas) is an engineer
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44919751/robert-laurel-crippen/

Randolph James "Komrade" Bresnik (born September 11, 1967) is a NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Bresnik

John Royer "Jack" Garman (September 11, 1944 - September 20, 2016) was a computer engineer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Garman

Sir James Hopwood Jeans (11 September 1877 - 16 September 1946) was an English physicist, astronomer and mathematician.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hopwood_Jeans

Alexandre Guy Pingré (11 September 1711 - 1 May 1796) was a French canon regular, astronomer and naval geographer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Guy_Pingr%C3%A9

Mary Proctor (1862 - September 11, 1957) was an American populariser of astronomy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Proctor

Mary Watson Whitney (September 11, 1847 - January 20, 1921) was an American astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Watson_Whitney

Carl Zeiss (11 September 1816 - 3 December 1888) was a German maker of optical instruments
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss

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The first series of QI started on 11 September 2003.

Spoiler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QI_(A_series)

Noggin the Nog television series was first broadcast on 11 September 1959
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t50749319/noggin-the-nog/

The Battle of Stirling Bridge was on 11 September 1297
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stirling_Bridge

The Battle of Vienna took place on 11 and 12 September 1683.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t54917033/battle-of-vienna/

The ATBIP bomb was successfully field-tested on September 11, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_of_All_Bombs

The World Wildlife Fund opened its first office on 11 September 1961

Spoiler

On September 11, 1972, the first route of the Bay Area Rapid Transit began running
http://www.bart.gov/

The Mars Global Surveyor reached Mars on 11 September 1997
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Global_Surveyor#Launch_and_orbit_insertion

On 11 September 1985, the ICE spacecraft passed through the plasma tail of Comet Giacobini-Zinner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cometary_Explorer#Giacobini-Zinner_encounter

The First Quasi-Zenith Satellite "MICHIBIKI" was launched on September 11, 2010 (JST).
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t33558202/quasi-zenith-satellite/

Hispasat 1-A was launched on 11 September 1992
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispasat