Fixed stars in Hercules
Star	1900	2000	R A	Decl 1950	Lat	Mag	Sp
chi	06SCO51	08SCO14	237 44 11	+42 35 26	+60 17 37	4.61	F7
theta	10SCO15	11SCO38	241 47 53	+45 03 54	+63 46 58	4.26	A0
tau	13SCO00	14SCO23	244 33 32	+46 25 53	+65 50 03	3.91	B7
sigma	21SCO51	23SCO14	248 07 21	+42 32 21	+63 10 01	4.25	A0
Marsik kappa	24SCO19	25SCO43	241 27 15	+17 10 43	+37 13 15	5.34	G4
eta	27SCO24	28SCO46	250 17 42	+39 00 58	+60 17 47	3.61	G5
gamma	27SCO50	29SCO13	244 55 42	+19 16 09	+40 00 47	3.79	A6
Kornephoros beta	29SCO42	01SAG05	247 01 02	+21 35 50	+42 42 31	2.81	G8
zeta	00SAG05	01SAG28	249 51 00	+31 41 32	+53 06 43	3.00	G0
Kajam omega	00SAG10	01SAG35	245 46 36	+14 08 49	+35 10 30	4.53	A2
epsilon	06SAG57	08SAG20	254 35 38	+30 59 55	+53 15 15	3.92	A0
pi	10SAG35	11SAG58	258 19 33	+37 11 27	+59 52 46	3.36	K3
Sarin delta	13SAG22	14SAG46	258 14 39	+24 53 48	+47 41 38	3.16	A3
rho	13SAG59	15SAG22	260 29 21	+37 11 27	+60 07 53	4.52	B9
Ras Algethi alpha	14SAG45	16SAG09	258 05 34	+14 26 43	+59 03 04	3.50	F8
iota	18SAG29	19SAG53	264 30 46	+46 01 55	+69 16 19	3.79	B3
Maasym lambda	18SAG30	19SAG54	262 10 45	+26 08 49	+49 17 60	4.48	K4
mu	23SAG51	25SAG14	266 07 30	+27 44 55	+51 07 15	3.48	G5
theta	27SAG06	28SAG29	268 38 03	+37 15 21	+60 41 28	5.48	F2
omicron	01SAG19	02SAG42	271 23 51	+28 45 16	+52 11 26	3.83	B9

Events in history

Herculean tasks

• Jan 20th 1986, Britain and France announced plans to build the Channel Tunnel. - Uranus/Maasym
• May 16th 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. - NNode/Kornephorus
• Feb 28th 1993 Three US planes carried out the first mission to drop relief supplies over Bosnia-Herzegovina. - Pluto/Marsik
• April 6th 1896, the first modern Olympic games formally opened in Athens, Greece. - Uranus/Marsik
• Feb 10th 1993 The Clinton administration said US troops could be sent to enforce peace in former Yugoslavia provided warring factions there negotiated a settlement. - Pluto/Marsik
• Jan 16th 1944, General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied Invasion Force in London. - Jupiter/Kajam
• May 14th 1975, US forces raided the Cambodian island of Koh Tang and recaptured the American merchant ship "Mayaguez." All 40 crew members were released safely by Cambodia, but some 40 US servicemen were killed in the military operation. - NNode/Kornephorus

  Assaults

• Jan 17th 1993 The United States, accusing Iraq of a series of military provocations, unleashed Tomahawk missiles against a military complex eight miles from downtown Baghdad. - Pluto/Marsik, North Node/Maasym
• July 1st, 1898, during the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba. - Uranus /Kornephorus

Terrorism

• April 19th 1993 The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; dozens of people, including David Koresh, were killed. - Pluto/Marsik
• May fourth, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. - Neptune /Kornephorus
• Mar 9th 1977, about a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims invaded three buildings in Washington DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The siege ended two days later. - Neptune/Ras Algethi
• May 13th 1985, a confrontation between Philadelphia authorities and the radical group "MOVE" ended as police dropped an explosive onto the group's headquarters; eleven people died in the resulting fire. - Saturn/Marsik

Invasions, revolutions, seizing of power

• Feb 11th 1979, followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seized power in Iran, nine days after the religious leader returned to his home country following 15 years of exile. - Neptune/Maasym
• Hungarian Revolt began, Oct 23rd 1956 NNode and Saturn/Kajam
• Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, Aug 21 1968 - Neptune/Ras Algethi
• Jan 7th 1979, Vietnamese forces captured the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, overthrowing the Khmer Rouge government. - Neptune /Maasym

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