1782 - John Goodricke[?] notices that the brightness variations of Algol are periodic and proposes that it is partially eclipsed by a body moving around it
1964 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar and Richard Feynman develop a general relativistic theory of stellar pulsations and show that supermassive stars are subject to a general relativistic instability
... a pipeline from Sakhalin Island to China, and then onto Japan (resisting intense diplomatic lobbying from Japan to build a pipeline directly to Japan, at Japan' ...