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World Wide Web goes public

35 years ago

🗺️ Worldwide

Tim Berners-Lee posts the first public description of the World Wide Web in 1991.

64 years ago

🌎 Latin America

Jamaica takes independence from Britain in 1962, after three centuries of colonial rule, and marks it with island-wide parades and festival.

81 years ago

🗺️ Worldwide

The first atomic bomb used in war falls on Hiroshima in 1945; the dove marks the world's turn toward nuclear restraint.

201 years ago

🌎 Latin America

Upper Peru declares itself independent in 1825 and takes its name from Simón Bolívar.

14 years ago

🗺️ Worldwide

A sky crane lowers the car-sized rover into Gale crater in 2012, and it is still driving more than a decade on.

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