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When NASA's rover Curiosity transmitted the first images from the surface of Mars to Earth shortly after landing at 05:31 UTC on August 6, 2012, this was the temporary highlight of a long history of various Mars missions.
Swing the leg in the square! The 29th of November is the day of Square Dance, the American National Square Dance Day.
Write again. On November 29th the USA celebrates the day of electronic greeting cards. After e-mail became one of the most important means of communication on the Internet in 1993, the first electronic greeting card followed relatively quickly in 1994.
With the US American Residual Food Day on 29 November, the focus will be on the recycling of the remaining food.
Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games. It is a table tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. The game was originally manufactured by Atari, which released it in 1972. Allan Alcorn created Pong as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell.
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John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF).
Mars Pathfinder is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997. It consisted of a lander, renamed the Carl Sagan Memorial Station, and a lightweight (10.6 kg/23 lb) wheeled robotic Mars rover named Sojourner, which became the first rover to operate outside the Earth–Moon system.
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer. A pioneer of the American animation industry, he introduced several developments in the production of cartoons.
Werner Karl Heisenberg (5 December 1901 – 1 February 1976) was a German theoretical physicist and one of the key pioneers of quantum mechanics. He published his work in 1925 in a breakthrough paper.
What do ninjas have to do with burgers? The answer is provided by the International Ninja Day on 5 December, which was launched in 2003.
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963. The programme depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called "the Doctor", an extraterrestrial being, to all appearances human, from the planet Gallifrey.