12 years in the past at present, NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars to start a protracted and illustrious profession as a robotic surveyor and geologist. It has spent most of its life operational life climbing the slopes of Mount Sharp after touchdown in Gale Crater. GNN has reported on a lot of its discoveries, the latest of which concerned the invention of pure sulfate crystals in an surroundings the place nobody anticipated them to be. It’s traveled a hair in need of 32 kilometers in distance. READ extra of what it’s found… (2012)
All through its time on the Purple Planet it’s recorded mud devils swirling throughout the panorama, discovered unusual rock formations formed like doorways and bones, and beamed again a whole lot of beautiful photos of Mars which have coloured the imaginations of Star Wars and Star Trek followers for a decade.
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- Bogota, Colombia was based (1538)
- The tv comic Lucille Ball was born (1911)
- Independence was claimed by Bolivia (1825)
- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into U.S. legislation, aiming to ban racial discrimination in voting rights assured by the 14th and fifteenth Amendments to the US Structure, particularly within the South the place minority rights weren’t being enforced (1965)
- The Beatles launched their fifth album, ‘Assist!’—the soundtrack to their second movie additionally included ‘The Evening Earlier than,’ ‘You’ve Acquired to Disguise Your Love Away,’ ‘You’re Going to Lose That Woman,’ ‘Ticket to Journey,’ and ‘Yesterday’ (1965)
- Doi Takako turned Japan’s first feminine speaker of the Home of Representatives (1991)
- British Prime Minister Tony Blair shook arms with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, the primary assembly in 76 years between a British chief and IRA ally (1997)
- Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed as the primary Hispanic Supreme Court docket justice by a Senate vote of 68-31 (2009)
- After a decade-long journey chasing its goal, the European House Company’s Rosetta, carrying three NASA devices, turned the primary spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet (2014)
Pleased forty first Birthday to one of many best Dutch goalscorers to ever play the gorgeous sport, Robin Van Persie. A legend at Arsenal and Manchester United throughout 11 seasons within the English Premier League, he boasted a goalscoring price of just about 1 each 2 video games, a haul he additionally loved underneath the colours of the Dutch nationwide workforce for whom he’s the best scorer within the nation’s historical past.
A “petulant” angle as a young person noticed Robin Van Persie go away his hometown membership Excelsior in Rotterdam to play for Feyenoord. His breakout season was marred by comparable tumult between Van Persie and the supervisor, and in 2004-2005, he left to hitch Arsenal FC in London.
He turned the central striker for the Gunners for the next 8 years throughout which period he gained the FA Cup and completed runners-up within the UEFA Champions League. He scored 96 instances in 198 appearances with Arsenal. Leaving in 2011, he spent three profitable seasons in Manchester the place he gained the Premier League title with Sir Alex Ferguson’s United workforce.
Ending as runners-up within the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, it was within the opening match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, that Van Persie captained the Netherlands to a 5–1 win over champions Spain whom they misplaced to within the ultimate of 2010. He scored twice within the match, one in every of which was a flying header which was later nominated for FIFA Puskás Award for essentially the most lovely objective of the yr. WATCH that objective… (1983)
62 years in the past at present, Jamaica reserved for itself full independence from each Nice Britain and the Federation of the West Indies. The brand new state retained, nevertheless, its membership within the Commonwealth of Nations (with the Queen as head of state) and adopted a Westminster-style parliamentary system.
The motion towards independence started within the Nineteen Fifties after Norman Manley was elected Chief Minister in 1955, he sped up the method of decolonization through a number of constitutional amendments.
Below Manley, Jamaica entered the West Indies Federation, a political union of colonial Caribbean islands that, if it had survived, would have united ten British colonial territories right into a single, unbiased state. Jamaica’s participation within the Federation was unpopular, and the outcomes of the 1961 West Indies referendum held by Premier Manley cemented the colony’s withdrawal from the union in 1962. The West Indies Federation collapsed later that yr following the departure of Trinidad and Tobago.
The Queen continues to be technically the pinnacle of state, however solely as a form of ceremonial position, appointing folks elected by Jamaica to function the Prime Minister, and nothing else. (1962)
33 years in the past at present, Tim Berners-Lee launched paperwork describing his invention of the World Huge Net. The English pc scientist designed and constructed the primary internet browser to entry the brand new data administration system. His Hypertext Switch Protocol (HTTP) can be used for contacting informational servers anyplace on the planet, the primary of which was the CERN HTTPd.
He labored at CERN on the time, and his supervisor referred to as his proposals ‘imprecise, however thrilling’. Later knighted by the Queen, Berners-Lee is presently the director of the World Huge Net Consortium, which oversees the continued growth of the Net. (1991)
And on at the present time in 1926, American Gertrude Ederle turned the primary lady to swim throughout the English Channel. Known as “The Queen of the Waves”, she was an Olympic champion swimmer, and former world record-holder in 5 occasions.
213 years in the past at present, Alfred Lord Tennyson, one in every of England’s most quoted poets, was born. The Poet Laureate of Nice Britain and Eire, throughout a lot of Queen Victoria’s reign, Tennyson is the ninth most incessantly quoted author in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations… (1809)
Tis higher to have cherished and misplaced – than by no means to have cherished in any respect. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
To attempt, to hunt, to seek out, and to not yield. – Tennyson
Ring out the previous, ring within the new. Ring out the false, ring within the true. – Tennyson
Information comes, however Knowledge lingers. – Tennyson
My energy is because the energy of ten, As a result of my coronary heart is pure. – Tennyson
Additionally, 42 years in the past at present, Pink Floyd’s movie The Wall starring Bob Geldof debuted in America. Conceived together with the double album by Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, audiences flocked to the movie a few rocker descending into despair. 
It will definitely earned $22 million and “two thumbs up” from critics Siskel and Ebert. The movie, principally pushed by music and lyrics, doesn’t include a lot dialogue. It’s best recognized for its disturbing surrealism, its quarter-hour of animation, and express scenes that includes violence, fascism and gore. (1982)
And, on at the present time in 1928, the artist Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh. A number one determine within the Nineteen Sixties visible artwork motion generally known as pop artwork, his topics included celebrities (Marilyn Monroe) and commerce (Campbell’s Soup Cans).
He coined the broadly used expression ‘fifteen minutes of fame’ and managed Lou Reed’s modern band, The Velvet Underground. An iconic New Yorker, he died at age 58 following gallbladder surgical procedure. Describing himself as a spiritual individual, he repeatedly volunteered at homeless shelters, and to have a good time his beginning, 90 circumstances of Campbell’s — or 1,080 cans — are being donated to the Higher Pittsburgh Meals Financial institution.
A brand new e book and exhibition, Contact Warhol, is ready to launch greater than 130,000 unpublished images providing insights into the king of pop artwork’s private life, taken by the person who by no means went anyplace and not using a digital camera. Trivia reality: His costliest portray, Silver Automobile Crash, was offered for $105 million {dollars} at public sale. WATCH a PBS brief on Warhol under…
And, 63 years in the past at present, the 18-year-old singer Chubby Checker carried out his model of The Twist on Dick Clark’s present, American Bandstand, beginning a worldwide dance craze phenomenon on tv for the primary time. The track quickly reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Scorching 100 chart—after which, once more, for a second time in 1962, making it the one track to hit No. 1 twice.
Due to Dick Clark urging Checker to document The Twist for his rock ‘n’ roll selection present, the influential cowl broke boundaries, each generational—as youngsters and fogeys alike danced The Twist—and racial, with whites shopping for the document of a Black artist’s. WATCH the present… (1960)
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