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Jul 4, 1997 U.S. Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars.
Jul 8, 1994 Chiaki Mukai the first Japanese female astronaut went to space in a U.S. mission.
Apr 24, 1990 U.S.A. launched Hubble Space Telescope. (Discovery)
Dec 8, 1988 World's first liver transplantation from living donor in Sao Paulo
Sep 9, 1980 Iran-Iraqi War broke out.
Jun 16, 1977 Von Brown died.
Jan 31, 1976 Quintuplets were born for the first time in Japan.
Jan 26, 1971 Soviet Venera 7 soft-landed on Venus.
Sep 21, 1968 Soviet lunar explorer Zond 5 dived in the Indian Ocean after orbiting around the moon.
May 22, 1963 Tornado in Gunma and Saitama Pref.,Japan
May 9, 1956 Japanese party reached the summit of Manaslu, Hymalaya, for the first time.
Oct, 14, 1947 C. Yeager succeeded in the first supersonic flight flying horizontally in U.S. X1.
Sep 14, 1947 2,247 died in typhoon Catherine that struck Japan.
Jul 7, 1937 Japanese and Chinese troops opened fire in Manchuria.
Feb 20, 1928 The first general election by universal suffrage.
Jul 25, 1911 Rainstorm in the Tokyo Bay.


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