On this day:
1964: NASA launches Mariner 4, the first spacecraft to make a flyby of Mars & the spacecraft was the first one to send images of a planet back to Earth.
1967: First pulsar observed by graduate student Jocelyn Bell and her advisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
1975: East Timor declared its independence from Portugal
Born on this day:
1820: Friedrich Engels, German philosopher
Gone on this day:
1954: Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1968: Enid Blyton, English author
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