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Today in History
🌌 1966: Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell aboard Gemini 12 became the first humans to witness a total solar eclipse from space, capturing snapshots during their mission.
🚀 1981: NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia launched on STS-2, marking the first time a crewed spacecraft was reused and relaunched into orbit.
💻 1990: Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau published their formal proposal for the "WorldWideWeb" project at CERN, outlining the hypertext system that became the modern web.
📡 2008: The USB 3.0 standard (aka SuperSpeed USB) was officially released, boosting data transfer speeds up to 5 Gbps and revolutionizing how we connect devices.
🎵 2015: YouTube Music launched, giving us a dedicated app for streaming tunes and videos—evolving into the music powerhouse it is today.
☄️ 2014: The European Space Agency's Philae lander (from the Rosetta mission) touched down on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, the first-ever comet landing.
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