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Apr 19 • 5 tweets • 10 min read

@Australia

#ThisDayInHistory Post 661:

19 April 1770 (252 years ago): Captain James Cook sighted the eastern coast of what is now Australia.

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#History #OnThisDay #OTD #CaptainJamesCook #Australia

19 April 1971 (51 years ago): Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.

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#ThisDayInHistory #History #OnThisDay #OTD #Salyut1 #SovietUnion

@isro

19 April 1975 (47 years ago): India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.

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#ThisDayInHistory #History #OnThisDay #OTD #Aryabhata #India #Satellite #ISRO

@TheSimpsons

19 April 1987 (35 years ago): The Simpsons first appeared as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night".

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#ThisDayInHistory #History #OnThisDay #OTD #TheSimpsons #GoodNight #TheTraceyUllmanShow

@NASAPersevere

19 April 2021 (1 year ago): The Ingenuity helicopter became the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.

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#ThisDayInHistory #History #OnThisDay #OTD #Ingenuity #Mars #Helicopter #NASA

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