** NASA launches the Cassini – Huygens probe to Saturn.

** César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer ( d. 1784 )

** Giovanni Domenico Cassini ( 1625 – 1712 ), also known as Jean-Dominique Cassini, Italian-French astronomer

** Jacques Cassini ( 1677 – 1756 ), French astronomer, son of Giovanni Domenico

** César-François Cassini de Thury ( 1714 – 1784 ), French astronomer and cartographer, son of Jacques, who developed the Cassini projection

** Jean-Dominique de Cassini ( 1748 – 1845 ), first Count Cassini, French astronomer and cartographer, son of César-François

** Alexandre Henri Gabriel de Cassini ( 1781 – 1832 ), known as Henri Cassini, French botanist, youngest son of Jean-Dominique

** Igor Cassini ( 1915 – 2002 ), American gossip columnist, writing as " Cholly Knickerbocker "

** Oleg Cassini ( 1913 – 2006 ), American fashion designer

** Giovanni Cassini

** Jacques Cassini, French astronomer ( born 1677 )

** César Cassini de Thury in Vienna

** Dominique, comte de Cassini ;

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

** Atlas V ( 2002 – Present )

** Atlas Major, a Standard Motor Company van 1962 – 1963

** The Banach – Tarski paradox.

** The Nielsen – Schreier theorem, that every subgroup of a free group is free.

** The Hahn – Banach theorem in functional analysis, allowing the extension of linear functionals

** The Banach – Alaoglu theorem about compactness of sets of functionals.

** Every Tychonoff space has a Stone – Čech compactification.

** This is a distinguished work which stands out from, and above, many of the books and articles which have ben written in this century on Avicenna ( Ibn Sīnā ) ( A. D. 980 – 1037 ).

** The numbers and are not algebraic numbers ( see the Lindemann – Weierstrass theorem ); hence they are transcendental.

** Laozi ( 5th – 4th century BC )

** Ge Hong ( 283 AD – 343 AD )

** Xun Zi ( c. 312 BC – 230 BC )

** Gongsun Long ( c. 325 BC – c. 250 BC )

** Zou Yan ( 305 BC – 240 BC )

** Mani ( c. 216 AD – 276 AD )

** Haliotis brazieri f. hargravesi ( Cox, 1869 ) – synonym: Haliotis ethologus, the Mimic abalone, Haliotis hargravesi, the Hargraves ’ s abalone

** Haliotis dalli roberti McLean, 1970 – synonym: Haliotis roberti

** Haliotis diversicolor squamata Reeve, 1846 – synonym: Haliotis squamata – the scaly Australian abalone

** Haliotis diversicolor supertexta – the Taiwan abalone or jiukong

** Haliotis kamtschatkana assimilis Dall, 1878 – synonym: Haliotis assimilis, the threaded abalone

** Haliotis ovina f. patamakanthini Dekker, Regter, & Gras, 2001 – synonym: Haliotis patamakanthini

** Haliotis rubra conicopora Péron, 1816 – synonym: Haliotis conicopora – the conical pore abalone

* Ion and Neutral Camera ( INCA ), an instrument aboard the Cassini – Huygens spacecraft

* 1714 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer ( d. 1784 )

* 1625 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist and astronomer ( d. 1712 )

Among the Laboratory's current major active projects are the Mars Science Laboratory mission ( which includes the Curiosity rover ), the Cassini – Huygens mission orbiting Saturn, the Mars Exploration Rovers ( Spirit and Opportunity ), the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Dawn mission to the dwarf planet Ceres and asteroid Vesta, the Juno spacecraft en route to Jupiter, the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory ( GRAIL ) mission to the Moon, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array ( NuSTAR ) X-ray telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope.

* Cassini – Huygens

A second-generation Mariner spacecraft, called the Mariner Mark II series, eventually evolved into the Cassini – Huygens probe, now in orbit around Saturn.

* 1997 – The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.

The Cassini – Huygens mission to Titan discovered clouds formed from methane or ethane which deposit rain composed of liquid methane and other organic compounds.

* April 18 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer ( b. 1677 )

* April 11 – Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer ( d. 2006 )

* December 6 – Taiping Rebellion: French minister de Bourboulon arrives at the Heavenly Capital aboard the Cassini.

* February 8 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer ( d. 1756 )

* June 8 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian astronomer and engineer ( d. 1712 )

* September 4 – César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer ( b. 1714 )

* June 30 – Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer ( d. 1845 )

Artist's conception of Cassini – Huygens as it enters Saturn's orbit

* Cassini – Huygens – first Saturn orbiter + Titan lander

* September 14 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French astronomer and engineer ( b. 1625 )

Saturn eclipses the Sun, as seen from the Cassini – Huygens space probe.

The Saturn ian moon Mimas ( moon ) | Mimas, photographed by the Cassini – Huygens | Cassini probe in 2005.

* 1655 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers Jupiter's Great Red Spot