* 1945 – Robert H. Goddard, American physicist and inventor ( b. 1882 )

He also cast leading actors such as Claudette Colbert, Gloria Swanson, Gary Cooper, Jetta Goudal, Robert Preston, Paulette Goddard and Charlton Heston in multiple pictures.

Along with his followers, the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics.

* 1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

Robert Goddard

In 1912 Robert Goddard, inspired from an early age by H. G. Wells, began a serious analysis of rockets, concluding that conventional solid-fuel rockets needed to be improved in three ways.

* Robert Goddard -- America's Space Pioneer

March 16: Robert H. Goddard | Goddard with rocket in 1926.

* March 16 – Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

* July 17 – The New York Times publicly takes back the ridicule of the rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard published in 13 Jan 1920 that spaceflight is impossible.

Robert Goddard and his rocket, 1926

* Robert Goddard makes the first flight of a liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.

* August 10 – Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist ( b. 1882 )

* January 13 – The New York Times ridicules the American rocket scientist Robert H. Goddard.

* October 5 – Robert Goddard, American rocket scientist ( d. 1945 )

A comprehensive catalog of vehicles, technology, astronauts, and flights, it includes information from most countries that have had an active rocket research program, from Robert Goddard to the NASA Space shuttle to the Soviet Shuttle Buran.

The concept of the ablative heat shield was described as early as 1920 by Robert Goddard: " In the case of meteors, which enter the atmosphere with speeds as high as 30 miles per second, the interior of the meteors remains cold, and the erosion is due, to a large extent, to chipping or cracking of the suddenly heated surface.

Robert Goddard is also the name of:

* Robert Goddard, witness in a trial after the Boston Massacre ( 1770 )

* Robert Goddard ( novelist ) ( born 1954 ), British novelist

* Robert Hale Ives Goddard ( 1837 – 1916 ), American businessman and politician from Rhode Island

* Robert Hale Ives Goddard III ( 1941-), American anthropologist and linguist

* Air Marshal Sir Robert Victor Goddard ( 1897 – 1987 ), British Royal Air Force officer

* 1882 – American Old West: Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.

* Robert Kerr ( 1882 – 1963 ), athlete & Olympic Gold Medalist

** Robert Darwin ( 1766 – 1848 ), physician, father of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

He also illustrated several best-selling books, including Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens ( 1875 ), Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick ( 1882 ), and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ( 1887 ).

* 1882 – Robert Lane, Canadian football player ( d. 1940 )

* 1963 – Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter ( b. 1882 )

* 1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

* 1940 – Robert Lane, Canadian football player ( b. 1882 )

* Robert Morris ( lawyer ) ( 1823 – 1882 ), African-American attorney

* Robert Stevens ( theater director ) ( 1882 –?

** Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter ( b. 1882 )

In 1882 the Padthaway Estate Homestead was built by Eliza and Robert Lawson.

The modern penny whistle is indigenous to the British Isles particularly England when factory-made " tin whistles " were produced by Robert Clarke from ( 1840 – 1882 ) in Manchester and later New Moston, England.

Wisden describes how the record was set around 1882, by one Robert Percival at Durham Sands Racecourse, at 140yards and two feet ( 128. 7 m ).

James formed a new gang in 1879 and continued until his death on April 3, 1882, when he was shot by fellow gang-member Robert Ford.

On April 3, 1882, Jesse James planned a robbery of the Platte City bank, but it was never carried out due to his assassination by Robert Ford on the morning of the raid.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

The first classes at the Gordon School were held in 1882, and the post office opened on 17 October 1883 with local businessman Robert Rogan serving as the community's first postmaster.

Duke Robert became a widower in 1882, and two years later he married Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Zita's mother.

The baths were presented as a gift to the town by philanthropists and benefactors Robert Platt ( 1802 – 1882 ), born in Stalybridge, and his wife Margaret Platt ( 1819 – 1888 ), born in Salford.

Robert Hutchings Goddard ( October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945 ) was an American professor, physicist and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which he successfully launched on March 16, 1926.

Among his best works were his drama Hannibal ( 1873 ), The Death of Themistocles, and other Poems ( 1881 ), his Byron in the " English Men of Letters " series ( 1880 ), his Robert Burns ( 1882 ) and Carlyle ( 1892 ).