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Today in 1913 the Ford Motor Company introduced the first moving assembly line. SCIENCE!

Today in 1942 Enrico Fermi and his team initiated the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. SCIENCE!!

Today in 1492 Christopher Columbus became the first European to land in Hispaniola (Haiti). SCIENCE and DISCOVERY!!

Today in 2006 photographs from Mars Global Surveyor suggest the presence of liquid water on Mars. SCIENCE! EXPLORATION!!

Today in 1972, Apollo 17 is launched. It is the last Apollo moon mission. They take this famous photo.

Today in 2010 the Japanese solarsail spacecraft IKAROS buzzed the planet Venus at a distance of 80,800 km. PHYSICS!!

Today in 1979, the eradication of the smallpox virus was certified. It is the first and only human disease to be eradicated. SCIENCE!

Today in 1901, Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland. SCIENCE!!

Today in 1962, NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.

Today in 1911, Roald Amundsen's team is the first to reach the South pole. EXPLORATION!!!

Today in 1970, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 lands on Venus. The first time man had ever landed on another planet. EXPLORATION!!

Today in 1917 and 1928, Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick were born. SCIENCE FICTION!!!

Today in 1961, Eric Allin Cornell was born. He would win the nobel prize for synthesizing the first Bose-Einstein Condensate in 1995.