NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory probe, which carried the Curiosity Rover to Mars.
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J.B. Sutherland from Detroit patented refrigerated railroad cars.
British archaeologists entered the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
The United States exhibited the country's first-ever lion in Boston.
The Titanic of New England, the SS Portland, sunk off the coast of Maine.
President George Washington proclaimed the day an official National Day of Thanksgiving for the United States of America.
