The United States exhibited the country’s first-ever lion in Boston.
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Queen Elizabeth II became Britain's first monarch to pay income tax.
France successfully launched their first satellite, Astérix, into Earth's orbit.
NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory probe, which carried the Curiosity Rover to Mars.
The last Concorde to ever fly made a lap of honor over the English channel.
President George Washington proclaimed the day an official National Day of Thanksgiving for the United States of America.
