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On This Day

10 events
2012
The NASA space probe Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.
2012
The skeleton of King Richard III of England was discovered under a car park in Leicester.
2011
Mexican drug war: Fifty-two people were killed in an arson attack at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico.
2001
American singer Aaliyah (pictured) and several members of her record company were killed when their overloaded aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Marsh Harbour Airport in The Bahamas.
1989
The NASA spacecraft Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings (pictured).
1975
Bruce Springsteen released his commercial breakthrough album, Born to Run.
1942
World War II: Japanese forces attacked the Australian base at Milne Bay on the eastern tip of New Guinea.
1914
World War I: During the sack of Louvain in Belgium, German troops burned the town's Catholic university, destroying several medieval manuscripts.
1875
Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, doing so in approximately 21 hours 40 minutes.
1758
Seven Years' War: Prussian forces engaged the Russians at the Battle of Zorndorf in present-day Sarbinowo, Poland.

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