NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory probe, which carried the Curiosity Rover to Mars.
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President George Washington proclaimed the day an official National Day of Thanksgiving for the United States of America.
Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' novel was published in the US.
Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's first monarch to pay income tax.
British archaeologists entered the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
The United States exhibited the country's first-ever lion in Boston.
