December 3rd, 2008

Today in History

1999:
NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.

1982:
A soil sample is taken from Times Beach, Missouri that would be found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.

1953:
The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and Republic of China is signed in Washington, DC.

1944:
Civil war breaks out in a newly-liberated Greece, between Communists and royalists.

1904:
The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at Lick Observatory.