2022
A US National Reconnaissance Office mission launched on a reused SpaceX booster for the first time.
The mission, NROL-85, is unfortunately highly classified. However, we know that it launched a national security payload into orbit. NROL-85 used the same SpaceX Falcon 9 booster that was previously used two months earlier in NROL-87.
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2021
Johns Hopkins University announced that the number of people who died worldwide due to the Covid-19 pandemic had reached three million.
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2019
Using gene therapy, eight babies suffering from “bubble boy disease” were cured in Memphis, Tennessee.
Bubble Boy Disease is when a child has such a weak immune system that common, everyday bacteria and other microbes become deadly to them. So in order for them to survive, they must spend their entire lives in a bubble.
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2011
Game of Thrones premiered on HBO.
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2011
The movie “Thor” premiered in cinemas in Sydney, Australia.
It was released in the United States on May 6 and earned $449.3 million worldwide.
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2007
Jazz composer and musician John Coltrane received the Special Citation Pulitzer Prize after his death.
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1973
FedEx officially began its operations and flew 186 packages to 25 cities on the US’s East Coast.
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1969
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of killing US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
The Palestinian immigrant was sentenced to death by gas chamber.
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1961
1,400 Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Fidel Castro after landing in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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1951
The United Kingdom officially created its first National Park, the Peak District National Park.
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1932
Slavery in Ethiopia came to an end thanks to Emperor Haile Selassie.
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1876
Seven Irish prisoners broke out of the Western Australian Colony’s Fremantle Prison and fled to the US.
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1865
American boarding house owner Mary Surratt was arrested for taking part in President Lincoln’s assassination.
Surratt was later hanged for her crime, becoming the first woman to be executed by the US government.
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1492
Explorer Christopher Columbus was given funding for his first journey.
He signed the contract in Santa Fe near Granada, Spain, and set sail to find the Indies on August 3.
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