On this day — July 14

Sweden, killing all nine aboard.

France, killing 86 people and injuring another 434 before being shot by police.

and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.

a sculpture named for the environmentalist, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

killing all 10 people on board.

beginning the popular Super Mario Bros franchise.

The photographs take approximately six hours to be transmitted back to Earth.

killing one person and injuring 44.

the monarchy is overthrown by popular forces led by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who becomes the nation's new leader.

thereby becoming the first female parliamentarian in the Arab world.