On This Day for July 15 - Close-up pictures of Mars provided by Mariner 4, Rembrandt van Rijn is featured, and more

Created: 2020-07-15 10:03 Updated: 2020-07-15 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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July 15

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Rembrandt van Rijn

Mariner 4, which was launched by the United States on November 28, 1964, returned images of the surface of Mars and transmitted information on the Martian atmosphere.

FEATURED EVENT

1965

Close-up pictures of Mars provided by Mariner 4

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MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2006: Cofounders Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Biz Stone publicly launched their online microblogging service Twitter, and within the following decade it had more than 300 million users. [Test your knowledge of tech companies.]

1997: Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace was murdered by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.

1988: The thriller Die Hard was first released in U.S. theatres, launching a hugely popular series and helping establish Bruce Willis as an action star. [Take our quiz about movies.]

1922: Leon Max Lederman, who was a corecipient of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Physics for research on neutrinos, was born in New York City. [ Take our quiz about the Nobel Prize.]

Bob Dylan performing at the Isle of Wight Festival, 1969.

1978: American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performed in England before 200,000 people. [Test your knowledge of songwriters.]

1912: American Jim Thorpe won a gold medal for the decathlon at the Olympics in Stockholm; he also captured a gold medal for the pentathlon. [Test your knowledge of the Olympics.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1946

Linda Ronstadt
American singer

1939

Ali Khamenei
rahbar of Iran

1951

Jesse Ventura
American professional wrestler, actor, and politician

1606

Rembrandt van Rijn
Dutch artist

1946

Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Muʿizzaddin Waddaulah
sultan of Brunei