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On This Date in History - October 30

by Nick Greene
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Quote Of The Day

Till we came to be

There was not a trace

Of a thinking race

Anywhere in space.
Robert Frost (1874–1963) U.S. poet. “Kitty Hawk.”

Today in History:


1981: Venera 13 - USSR Venus Flyby/Lander launched. Venera 13 landed on Venus on March 1, 1982. It returned black and white, and the first color panoramic views of the Venusian surface. It also conducted soil analysis using an x-ray fluorescence spectrometer. The sample was determined to be leucite basalt, a rare rock type on the Earth.

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