December 3rd, 2008

Today in History

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

1976:
Patrick Hillery becomes the sixth President of Ireland.

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

1925:
George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F is premiered at Carnegie Hall.

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