2011
Space Shuttle Discovery completed its last-ever mission and made its final landing onto Kennedy’s runway at 11:57 am EST.
NASA’s Discovery is now on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
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1998
Eminem signed up to the record label “Aftermath Entertainment,” founded by Dr. Dre.
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1987
The American Motors Corporation, best known for creating the Jeep, was bought out by Chrysler.
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1974
Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda became the last Japanese soldier to surrender, 29 years after WWII ended.
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1964
Ford Mustang went on sale for the first time.
The company sold over 22,000 on its first day alone!
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1961
The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 9 was launched into orbit.
Onboard was Ivan Ivanovich the mannequin, Chernushka the dog, a few mice, and even a guinea pig!
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1959
Barbie was presented to the public for the first time.
The first doll appeared at the American Toy Fair, New York City, US.
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1926
Bertha Landes became the first female mayor of a major city (Seattle) in the US.
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1891
A five-day blizzard started in the south of England and killed 200 people.
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1611
Dutch astronomer Johannes Fabricius discovered sunspots.
Sunspots are regions of reduced surface temperature on the sun.
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1562
Naples, Italy, banned kissing in public.
If authorities caught couples kissing in public, the act was punishable by death.
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1497
Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus recorded his first observation after witnessing a moon eclipse with a distant star.
This observation was important as it started his thinking that the sun was in the center of the cosmos.
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