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Mars approaches closest to the Earth since 57,617 BC:
The next time the two planets will be this close will be in 2287.
Moldova gains its Independence:
The Eastern European country was part of the Soviet Union since August 2, 1940. After the dissolution of the USSR, the country gained its independence.
NASA Launches Mariner 2:
The unmanned space probe was the first man-made object to flyby another planet.
- 1976 Mark Webber
Australian race car driver
- 1952 Paul Reubens
American actor
- 1908 Donald Bradman
Australian cricketer
- 1908 Lyndon B. Johnson
36th President of the United States
- 1990 Stevie Ray Vaughan
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer
- 1979 Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
British statesman, naval officer
- 1975 Haile Selassie I
Ethiopian Emperor
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