The last Concorde to ever fly made a lap of honor over the English channel.
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The New York and Harlem Railroad became the first railroad to operate in the US.
J.B. Sutherland from Detroit patented refrigerated railroad cars.
The United States exhibited the country's first-ever lion in Boston.
NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory probe, which carried the Curiosity Rover to Mars.
The Titanic of New England, the SS Portland, sunk off the coast of Maine.