On this day in 1996, NASA launched Mars Global Surveyor, a robotic spacecraft designed to carry out a long-term study of the planet. Watch out for those Martians
The Martian are coming!“The War of the Worlds”—Orson Welles's realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth—is broadcast on the radio on October 30, 1938.
On this day in 1886, President Grover Cleveland officially dedicated the Statue of Liberty—a gift from the people of France to the United States on Bedloe's (later Liberty) Island in Upper New York Bay