The Voyager 1 spacecraft is a 722-kilogram robotic space probe of the outer solar system and beyond, launched September 5, 1977, and currently operational. It visited Jupiter and Saturn and was the first probe to provide detailed images of the moons of these planets.
Voyager 1′s Saturn flyby occurred in November 1980, with the closest approach […]

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STS-3 was the third space shuttle mission, and was the third mission for the Space Shuttle Columbia. It was the first and only landing so far at the White Sands Space Harbor in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
STS-3 was planned as a 7 day flight. However, it was extended an extra day because of high winds […]

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Academy Award-winning American film actor James Francis Cagney Jr won acclaim for a wide variety of roles, including the career-launching The Public Enemy, and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942 for his role in Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Like James Stewart, Cagney became so familiar to audiences that they usually referred to him as “Jimmy” […]

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On March 30, 1981, John Warnock Hinckley Jr. fired a .22 caliber Röhm RG-14 revolver six times at President Ronald Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. after addressing an AFL-CIO conference.
Hinckley did not directly hit Reagan, but the president was seriously wounded when a bullet ricocheted from the bulletproof glass of […]

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Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, DSO, OBE, MC, was a British soldier, barrister and politician. During World War II he was one of the few servicemen to escape from Colditz Castle. Later he became a Conservative politician sitting as MP for Abingdon.
Airey Neave was killed on 30 March 1979, when a mercury-tilt based car bomb exploded […]

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The Easter Offensive (also commonly called the Spring Offensive though officially, the Nguyen Hue Offensive) was a military campaign conducted by the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) against the armed forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) and the United States.
This conventional invasion between 30 March and 22 October 1972, (the largest offensive operation […]

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The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is the international treaty against illicit manufacture and trafficking of narcotics that forms the bedrock of the global drug control regime.
Previous treaties had only controlled opium, coca, and derivatives such as morphine, heroin and cocaine. The Single Convention, adopted on March 30, 1961, consolidated those treaties, broadening their scope […]

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The Yonge-University-Spadina Line is the oldest subway line in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and undoubtedly, the most crowded subway line in Toronto, since it serves Downtown Toronto.
It is operated by the Toronto Transit Commission, has 32 stations and is 30.2 km (18.8 miles) in length. It opened in March 1954, and had extensions completed in 1963, […]

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The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer made in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC.
Design work was begun by their company, Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, and was completed after the company had been acquired by Remington Rand. The […]

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Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer.
He is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries, garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (The Yardbirds, Cream, and solo). Often viewed by critics and fans […]

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