On this day:
1825: Uruguay Declares Independence from the Brazilian Empire
1944: Liberation of Paris from Nazi control began and ended
2012: NASA’s Voyager I became the first Spacecraft to Enter Interstellar Space
Gone on this day:
1227: Genghis Khan, the Mongolian emperor
1776: David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, philosopher
1867: Michael Faraday, English scientist
1900: Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
2012: Neil Armstrong, American pilot, engineer, astronaut, the first person to walk on the moon
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