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Lunar Roving Vehicle first used on the Moon: 31 July 1971 - This Day in History
On this day in 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts James B. Irwin and David Scott first used the four-wheeled, battery-powered Lunar Roving Vehicle to extensively explore the Moon's surface, in particular the Hadley-Apennine site.
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1994: A UN Security Council resolution authorized the use of “all necessary means” to restore democracy to Haiti.
1948: U.S. President Harry S. Truman dedicated Idlewild Airport as New York International Airport (rededicated as John F. Kennedy International Airport in 1963).
1667: The Treaty of Breda ended the Second Anglo-Dutch War and transferred New Netherland (now New York and New Jersey) to England.
1556: St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church, died in Rome.
Milton Friedman: Biography of the Day
American economist and educator Milton Friedman, who was one of the leading proponents of monetarism in the second half of the 20th century and who was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics, was born this day in 1912.
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