NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory probe, which carried the Curiosity Rover to Mars.
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The last Concorde to ever fly made a lap of honor over the English channel.
The Titanic of New England, the SS Portland, sunk off the coast of Maine.
Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's first monarch to pay income tax.
The New York and Harlem Railroad became the first railroad to operate in the US.
British archaeologists entered the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
