The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
The orbiting telescope is placed in service.
The facts
| Dates | AD 1990 |
|---|---|
| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope falls 5994 years out from Creation at the centre. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.
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Who else was alive
Billy Graham preaches to a million in South KoreaAD 1973The eradication of smallpoxAD 1980The first space shuttle launchAD 1981The fall of the Berlin WallAD 1989The cloning of Dolly the sheepAD 1996Benjamin Netanyahu elected Israel’s prime ministerAD 1996The creation of GoogleAD 1998The completion of the Human Genome ProjectAD 2003
Now see where it sits
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