2084
Next transit of Earth as seen from Mars.
No one has ever seen a transit of Earth from Mars, but the next transit will take place on November 10, 2084. The last such transit took place on May 11, 1984.
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2021
New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson sells Weta Digital’s technology division to video games company Unity for US$1.6 billion.
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2020
Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev established November 10th as Victory Day.
Victory Day celebrates the taking of Nagorno-Karabakh, a region Azerbaijan and Armenia have long disputed. Azerbaijan claimed the territory after a bloody 45-day conflict. A ceasefire was only agreed upon with the assistance of Russian peacekeeping forces.
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2019
Iran claimed to have found over 50 billion barrels of oil in the country’s Khuzestan province.
According to President Hassan Rouhani, the area covered 1,490 square miles and was 262 feet deep.
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2014
Bruno Mars released his “Uptown Funk” single.
It won the Billboard 2015 and Grammy 2016 Song of the Year, along with the Grammy 2016 Record Of The Year.
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2012
Seventeen soldiers lost their lives in a helicopter crash during bad weather in Turkey.
The disaster happened in the Pervari District, where the helicopter became surrounded by thick fog and crashed into a mountain.
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2008
NASA declared the conclusion of the Phoenix mission after contact was lost with the Phoenix lander.
The uncrewed space probe landed on Mars on May 25, 2008, with a mission to study the history of water on Mars and determine the planet’s overall habitability. Despite being concluded so soon after commencing, the $420 million mission was declared a success, as the lander managed to complete all its planned projects by August.
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1993
The musical comedy “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” was first performed at the Minskoff Theatre, New York City, US.
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1990
American Christmas comedy “Home Alone” with Macaulay Culkin premiered in Chicago, US.
The movie is an all-time classic and reached $476.7 million at the box office! The franchise continued in 1992 with “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.”
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1983
The US Federal Government shut down for three days.
This was because president Ronald Reagan and the Democratic party had disagreements on funding more education and less on defense and foreign aid.
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1982
The International Money Fund loaned Mexico $3.8 billion to prevent its insolvency.
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1917
41 Suffragists were arrested at the White House, Washington, D.C.
Brave women from across the United States left the National Woman’s Party’s headquarters at Cameron House, Washington, D.C, and headed to the White House to protest for the right to vote. Forty-one women were arrested and given prison sentences as a consequence.
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1885
German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveiled the world’s first motorcycle, referred to as the Daimler Reitwagen.
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1793
The Festival of Reason was held at Notre Dame, Paris.
The Festival of Reason was part of France’s dechristianization, an attempt to banish Christianity. The Festival of Reason ordered that all Christian Churches be transformed into Temples of Reason. On this day across the country, altars were dismantled, and the churches were transformed. This was a new religious concept drawn up by the French government called the Cult of Reason, and this was a catalyst for the French revolution, as Christians had their religious beliefs and places of worship taken from them.
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1775
The United States Marine Corps was founded when two battalions of Continental Marines came together in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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