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Leave Murray Bay with B Balchen and H Junkers; stop in N Y C en route to Wash; attend funeral of Bennett in Wash; pors; Fitzmaurice's story; House Com on Military Affairs endorses bill for award of Distinguished Flying Cross to crew; N Y C plans; Bremen's propeller brought to N Y; radio traces journey; the Baron on possibility of return flight to Eur
WASHINGTON, April 27 (Written on Board Pennsylvania Railroad Train No. 129, en route between New York and Washington).--We stayed the night at Murray Bay, where we had come after the Ford plane brought us down at Lake Ste. Agnes on the trip in from Greenely Island. A house had been placed...
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1928Yves Klein, French painter (died 1962)[â ]
Yves Klein was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme, founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art. He developed and used International Klein Blue.
1928Eugene Merle Shoemaker, American geologist and astronomer (died 1997)[â ]
Eugene Merle Shoemaker was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet ShoemakerâLevy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televised around the world. Shoemaker also studied terrestrial craters, such as Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and along with Edward Chao provided the first conclusive evidence of its origin as an impact crater. He was also the first director of the United States Geological Survey's Astrogeology Research Program.