Today in history
Strait of Magellan: the ships of explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific from the Atlantic by sailing through the strait that later took his name (1520)
Royal Society: long-lived UK scientific society was founded by learned men (1660)
Mariner 4: spacecraft that sent the first pictures of the Martian surface was launched (1964)
Strait of Magellan: the ships of explorer Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific from the Atlantic by sailing through the strait that later took his name (1520)
Royal Society: long-lived UK scientific society was founded by learned men (1660)
Mariner 4: spacecraft that sent the first pictures of the Martian surface was launched (1964)