2013
Earth-like calcium-rich deposits were found on Mars by NASA’s Curiosity Rover.
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2013
Seven-time Tour de France winner, Lance Armstrong, admitted doping during all wins on Oprah Winfrey.
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1993
Production of the Pixar film Toy Story began.
The film was Pixar Animation Studios’ first full-length feature film, as well as the first Pixar-Disney collaboration.
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1983
Apple released the first computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) called the Lisa.
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1977
Miami, Florida, received snow for the first and last time ever.
The temperature dipped below 30°F on this day. A temperature that is rarely seen by the area.
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1971
The Beatles song “Helter Skelter” was played in court as evidence for Charles Manson’s trial.
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1966
Indira Gandhi was elected as India’s 4th Prime Minister.
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1955
The popular board game Scrabble went on sale in the UK.
The word-finding board game was created 17 years prior and initially only for sale in the US.
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1883
Thomas Edison’s first overhead electric lighting system began service in Roselle, New Jersey.
The system was part of an experiment to prove that an entire community could be lit up by electricity from a central generating station.
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1861
The state of Georgia seceded from the United States of America.
Georgia was the fifth state to secede, following South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Shortly afterward, Georgia became one of the founding states of the Confederate States of America.
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1785
Richard Crosbie became the first Irish man to fly a hot air balloon in Ireland.
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1607
The construction for the San Agustin Church in Manila was officially completed.
It is the oldest stone church still standing in the Philippines.
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