2015 Event NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft ends its three-year orbit around Mercury with a planned crash into the planet's surface; originally, the probe was to orbit and collect data for one year, but fuel saving efforts extended its mission for two more years 2014 Event Japan launches an explorer that will take samples and collect data from the surface of an asteroid; the six-year trip will include eighteen months of study and data collection 2014 Event NASA Mars probe MAVEN is on track to enter the planet's orbit after a 10-month journey; the probe will collect data for a year on the upper Martian atmosphere to potentially answer questions about climate change on the planet 2014 Event The government of the U.K. has announced that it will put 11 million pounds into the funding of the Square Kilometer Array project, a radio telescope that will collect massive amounts of data from space, requiring immense computing resources 2010 Event China creates a new 'Confucius peace prize' to honor its former Taiwanese Vice President, Lien Chan, who refused to collect it 1944 Event Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno 1941 Event Detroit pitcher Al Benton is 1st to collect 2 sacrifices in an inning 1925 Event Tigers' Ty Cobb is 1st to collect 1,000 extra-base hits (ends 1,139) 1923 Event French and Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations 1914 Event U.S. Post Office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail 1913 Event Internal Revenue Service begins to levy and collect income taxes
