1717 - The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England.
1791 - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1899 - In the state of Washington, USA, Mount Rainier National Park is established.
1949 - Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute.
1969 - In Toulouse, France the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
1972 - The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1978 - Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
1998 - Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.

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