What did the sky look like? 75 historic nights

The real night sky on the night of the Moon landing, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Woodstock and 72 more historic nights: stars, Moon and planets over the exact place and hour.

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17th century

• Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons — 7 January 1610, Padua, Italy

18th century

• The Boston Tea Party — 16 December 1773, Griffin's Wharf, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• Paul Revere's midnight ride — 18 April 1775, Old North Church, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• The Declaration of Independence — 4 July 1776, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Washington's crossing of the Delaware — 25 December 1776, McConkey's Ferry (Washington Crossing), Pennsylvania, USA
• The discovery of Uranus — 13 March 1781, 19 New King Street, Bath, England
• The premiere of Don Giovanni — 29 October 1787, Estates Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic
• The storming of the Bastille — 14 July 1789, the Bastille, Paris, France

19th century

• The Battle of Waterloo — 18 June 1815, Waterloo battlefield, Belgium
• The premiere of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony — 7 May 1824, Kärntnertortheater, Vienna, Austria
• The discovery of Neptune — 23 September 1846, Berlin Observatory, Germany
• The Carrington Event — 1 September 1859, Redhill, Surrey, England
• The first Juneteenth — 19 June 1865, Galveston, Texas, USA
• Edison's public demonstration of electric light — 31 December 1879, Menlo Park, New Jersey, USA
• The opening of the Brooklyn Bridge — 24 May 1883, Brooklyn Bridge, New York, USA
• The dedication of the Statue of Liberty — 28 October 1886, Liberty Island, New York Harbor, USA
• The inauguration of the Eiffel Tower — 31 March 1889, Eiffel Tower, Paris, France
• The first public film screening — 28 December 1895, Grand Café, Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, France

20th century

• The Wright brothers' first flight — 17 December 1903, Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA
• The first Times Square ball drop — 1 January 1908, One Times Square, New York, USA
• The sinking of the Titanic — 15 April 1912, North Atlantic, where RMS Titanic sank
• The premiere of The Rite of Spring — 29 May 1913, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
• The Christmas truce of 1914 — 24 December 1914, near Ploegsteert, Flanders, Belgium
• The Armistice of 1918 — 11 November 1918, Glade of the Armistice, Compiègne, France
• Edwin Hubble's Andromeda plate — 5 October 1923, Mount Wilson Observatory, California, USA
• Charles Lindbergh landing in Paris — 21 May 1927, Le Bourget airfield, Paris, France
• The first Academy Awards — 16 May 1929, Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
• The discovery of Pluto — 18 February 1930, Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
• The War of the Worlds broadcast — 30 October 1938, CBS studios, 485 Madison Avenue, New York, USA
• D-Day — 6 June 1944, Pegasus Bridge, Bénouville, Normandy, France
• The Liberation of Paris — 25 August 1944, Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France
• VE Day — 8 May 1945, Buckingham Palace, London, England
• Indian independence — 15 August 1947, Constituent Assembly, New Delhi, India
• The coronation of Elizabeth II — 2 June 1953, Westminster Abbey, London, England
• Rosa Parks's arrest — 1 December 1955, Court Square, Montgomery, Alabama, USA
• The launch of Sputnik 1 — 4 October 1957, Baikonur launch site, Kazakhstan
• Yuri Gagarin's flight into space — 12 April 1961, Baikonur launch site, Kazakhstan
• The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show — 9 February 1964, CBS Studio 50, New York, USA
• Bob Dylan going electric at Newport — 25 July 1965, Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
• The Beatles at Shea Stadium — 15 August 1965, Shea Stadium, Queens, New York, USA
• The 1966 World Cup final — 30 July 1966, Wembley Stadium, London, England
• The great Leonid meteor storm of 1966 — 17 November 1966, Kitt Peak, Arizona, USA
• Jimi Hendrix at Monterey Pop — 18 June 1967, Monterey County Fairgrounds, California, USA
• Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Mountaintop" speech — 3 April 1968, Mason Temple, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
• Apollo 8's Christmas Eve broadcast — 24 December 1968, Mission Control, Houston, Texas, USA
• The Stonewall uprising — 28 June 1969, Stonewall Inn, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
• The Moon landing — 20 July 1969, Mission Control, Houston, Texas, USA
• Woodstock — 15 August 1969, Max Yasgur's farm, Bethel, New York, USA
• Apollo 13's "Houston, we've had a problem" — 13 April 1970, Mission Control, Houston, Texas, USA
• The night launch of Apollo 17 — 7 December 1972, Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
• Nixon's resignation speech — 8 August 1974, the White House, Washington, D.C., USA
• The Rumble in the Jungle — 30 October 1974, Stade du 20 Mai, Kinshasa, Zaire (DR Congo)
• The Miracle on Ice — 22 February 1980, Olympic Center, Lake Placid, New York, USA
• Live Aid — 13 July 1985, Wembley Stadium, London, England
• The discovery of Supernova 1987A — 24 February 1987, Las Campanas Observatory, Chile
• The fall of the Berlin Wall — 9 November 1989, Bornholmer Straße checkpoint, Berlin, Germany
• Nelson Mandela's release — 11 February 1990, City Hall, Cape Town, South Africa
• German reunification — 3 October 1990, Reichstag, Berlin, Germany
• The end of the Soviet Union — 25 December 1991, the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia
• The Barcelona 1992 Olympic opening ceremony — 25 July 1992, Estadi Olímpic, Montjuïc, Barcelona, Spain
• Muhammad Ali lighting the Olympic flame — 19 July 1996, Centennial Olympic Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• The Hong Kong handover — 1 July 1997, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
• The 1998 World Cup final — 12 July 1998, Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France

21st century

• Millennium Night — 1 January 2000, Millennium Dome, Greenwich, London, England
• The Sydney 2000 Olympic opening ceremony — 15 September 2000, Stadium Australia, Sydney, Australia
• The 2006 World Cup final — 9 July 2006, Olympiastadion, Berlin, Germany
• The Beijing 2008 Olympic opening ceremony — 8 August 2008, Beijing National Stadium ("Bird's Nest"), China
• Barack Obama's election night — 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA
• The 2010 World Cup final — 11 July 2010, Soccer City, Johannesburg, South Africa
• The London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony — 27 July 2012, Olympic Stadium, Stratford, London, England
• The Curiosity rover landing on Mars — 5 August 2012, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA
• The 2014 World Cup final — 13 July 2014, Maracanã Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• The longest lunar eclipse of the century — 27 July 2018, Rome, Italy
• The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn — 21 December 2020, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, England
• The great aurora of May 2024 — 10 May 2024, London, England

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