The scientist Guenter Wendt

Guenter Wendt

Living place: Germany

Birthday: 28-8-1923 (101 years old)

Global rank: #53805

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Who is The scientist Guenter Wendt?
Engineer working on manned spaceflight of the US program and in charge of launch pads. He oversaw the spacecraft prepare for launch at Cape Canaveral during the Mercury and Gemini manned space programs, beginning with the flights of Ham chimpanzee in 1961.
He received the Achievement Award. lifetime of NASA in 2009 and he was played by Endre Hules in the 1995 film Apollo 13.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied mechanical engineering in Germany before fighting for Nazi Germany in World War II, serving as an aircraft engineer on the Luftwaffe night fighter.

Family life info

He married Herma Riggert who died in 1993 after more than 40 years of marriage.

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He was given the nickname "Der Führer Der Launch Pad" by John Glenn.

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When was The scientist Guenter Wendt born?
Guenter Wendt birthday 28-8-1923 (at the age of 101).
Where is The scientist Guenter Wendt's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Guenter Wendt was born in Germany. is a The scientist, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Guenter Wendt's global rank is 53805 and whose rank is 255 in list of famous The scientist.
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Events in 1923 and 28-8

Events in the world in the birth year of Guenter Wendt

  • Adolf Hitler's "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich fails; in 1924 he is sentenced to five years in prison where he writes Mein Kampf . He is released after eight months.
  • Earthquake destroys one-third of Tokyo.
  • Occupation of Ruhr by French and Belgian troops to enforce reparations payments. Background: Holocaust Reparations

Birthday Guenter Wendt (28-8) in history

  • Day 28-8 year 1609: British explorer Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay, USA.
  • Day 28-8 year 1850: Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin , premiered at Weimar, Germany.
  • Day 28-8 year 1922: The first commercial to be broadcast on radio aired on station WEAF in New York City. The ten minute advertisement for the Queensboro Realty Company cost $100.
  • Day 28-8 year 1955: Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and by white men after he supposedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. The case was reopened in 2005.
  • Day 28-8 year 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial to civil rights demonstrators.
  • Day 28-8 year 1968: Anti-Vietnam war protesters and police clashed in the streets of Chicago while the Democratic National Convention nominated Hubert H. Humphrey for president.
  • Day 28-8 year 1981: The Centers for Disease Control announced a medical task force had been formed to look into the incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis in homosexual men. AIDS was later found to be the cause.
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