On this day:
1962: NASA Launches Mariner 2, the first man-made object to flyby another planet
1991: Moldova gains its Independence from the Soviet Union
2003: Mars approaches closest to the Earth since 57,617 BC
Born on this day:
1770: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher
Gone on this day:
1979: Louis Mountbatten, British naval officer and statesman, last Viceroy of India, is assassinated by an IRA bomb on his boat in Ireland at 79
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