On This Day
1066 - The 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet took place. (click image for more information)
1835 - Charles Darwin reached Los Arenales, in the Andes.
1909 - British Lt. Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole.
1967 - Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. called the Vietnam War the biggest obstacle to the civil rights movement.
1998 - The movie "Titanic" won 11 Oscars at the Academy Awards.
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