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Liberation of Paris

On August 25th, 1944, Paris was liberated from four years of German occupation after a week of street fighting by the French Resistance and Allied forces. General de Gaulle led a triumphal march down the Champs-Elysees the following day. Simone de Beauvoir described the day as the only moment she had ever believed in miracles.

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The NASA space probe Voyager 1 became the first man-made object to enter interstellar space.

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