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18 December 2017
IOP is extending its Whole School Equality Programme to train Gender Champions chosen by schools on a free two-day residential course, thanks to funding received this autumn from the government
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15 December 2017
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- 1968 Apollo 8 returns to Earth from the first manned mission to the moon, landing in the Pacific Ocean
- 2004 The brightest known extra-solar event is witnessed as radiation from a soft gamma repeater 14.5 kiloparsecs away in the constellation of Sagittarius reaches the Earth
- 1571 Birth of Johannes Kepler, who discovered three laws of planetary motion that would become the basis for Newton’s theory of gravity
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