After a 15-month-long journey from earth, NASA’s Magellan went into orbit around Venus and began to map the planet.
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The Paluweh volcano in Indonesia erupted and claimed six lives.
Floods swept through India, killing over two hundred people and displacing one million.
Portuguese explorer Diogo Dias became the first European to set foot on Madagascar.
A century-old fruit cake was discovered in Antarctica that was ''almost edible.”
Protesting and riots began in Missouri following the death of African American man, Michael Brown.
