On this day - July 31On this day in 1964, Ranger 7, an unmanned U.S. lunar probe, takes the first close-up images of the moon--4,308 in total--before it impacts with the lunar surface northwest of the Sea of the Clouds. The images were 1,000 times as clear as anything ever seen through earth-bound telescopes. |
| Born today; Evonne Goolagong (1951) the Tennis player who won Wimbledon in 1971 and 1980. |
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