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2 things science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1997
NASA's Mars Pathfinder bounced down on airbags in Ares Vallis and released Sojourner, the first wheeled rover to explore another planet. Its low-cost success showed a nimble new way to reach the surface of Mars.
Source: Wikipedia
2012
Scientists at CERN announced they had found the Higgs boson, the long-sought particle that gives other particles their mass. The discovery completed the Standard Model of physics after a search that lasted nearly fifty years.
Source: Wikipedia
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