🎒🐰💭’On 11 August 1962, Vostok 3 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev becomes the first person to float in microgravity.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 10 August 1990, The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 9 August 1930, Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 8 August 1969, at a zebra crossing in London, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the iconic photo that becomes the cover image of the Beatles’ album Abbey Road.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 7 August 1944, IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator.’

🎒🐰💭’On 6 August 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 5 August 1620, The Mayflower: famously transported the first English Puritans, departs from Southampton, England on its first attempt to reach North America.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 4 August 2007, NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft is launched.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 3 August 1527, the first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John’s, Newfoundland.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 2 August 1932, Carl David Anderson discovered the positron: the antimatter counterpart of the electron, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936.‘