Anniversaries: X years ago today

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English-speaking community for anniversaries. This also includes personal events!

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Mandatory title format: "X years ago today […]", where of course X is replaced by the number of years.
X ≥ 5.
English language only, but links to non-English sources are allowed if a (short) English summary is provided.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: Removed conflicting information from the title.

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[–] Blue_Morpho 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

first nation in the world to do so in it's first attempt

The linked Wikipedia article says this:

"second national space agency in the world to do so on its maiden attempt"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I copied the information from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_24#Events. Gonna remove the conflicting information from the title now. Thanks for notifying me.