NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory probe, which carried the Curiosity Rover to Mars.
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The Queen Adosinda of Asturias was placed in a convent at San Juan de Pravia for the rest of her life.
Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's first monarch to pay income tax.
The Titanic of New England, the SS Portland, sunk off the coast of Maine.
Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' novel was published in the US.
The New York and Harlem Railroad became the first railroad to operate in the US.
