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Compaq Introduced Presario
1993
Compaq Computer Corp. announced its Presario family of personal computers, intended to be user friendly and cheap. For $1,399, the Presario included a monitor, modem, and software to access the recently popularized online world through Prodigy and America Online.
Mars approached closest to the Earth since 57,617 BC
2003
The next time the two planets will be this close will be in 2287.
NASA Launched Mariner 2
1962
Part of NASA’s Mariner program, the unmanned space probe was the first man-made object to flyby another planet – it encountered Venus on December 14, 1962. The space probe made its last contact with scientists on Earth on January 3, 1963.
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