Born on This Day
French writer who helped pioneer sci-fi in "Around the World in Eighty Days" and "Journey to the Center of the Earth."
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet known for her precise style in poems like "One Art" and "Sestina."
Actor who became cultural legend thanks to his roles in "Rebel Without a Cause" and "East of Eden" and his early death at age 24.
After a brilliant fireball streaks across the sky over northern Mexico, thousands of individual stones rain down over a large rural area. More than two tons’ worth of the so-called Allende meteorite—one of history’s largest—have since been collected.
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