2006 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit
2005 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launches
2004 William H. Pickering, rocket scientist, manager of the Mariner missions to Venus and Mars in the '60s, dies at 93
2000 Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon
1999 "Forrest Mars, Sr", businessman, Mars candy, dies at 95
1997 U.S. space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars
1997 "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" closes at Gershwin New York City
1997 "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," opens at Gershwin New York City
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit
1996 NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
1996 NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars
1993 Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
1993 NASA loses contact with Mars Observer
1993 Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km
1993 Motley Crue's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn
1992 U.S. Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle
1990 Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies
1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Moon
1989 U.S.S.R. announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars
1988 NASA unviels plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars
1984 Transit of Earth as seen on Mars
1976 Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity
1976 Viking 2 soft lands on Mars and returns photos
1976 Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars
1976 U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
1976 Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars
1976 Lukas Hass, actor, Mars Attacks, Lady in White, Witness, Music Box
1975 Wings release "Venus and Mars/Rock Show" medley
1975 Viking 2 Mars probe launch
1975 Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
1975 Wings release "Venus and Mars" album
1975 Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars"
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 7
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 6
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5
1973 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet
1972 Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars
1971 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1971 Walter Sande, actor (Red Planet Mars), dies of heart attack at 65
1971 Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars)
1971 U.S. Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
1971 U.S.S.R. Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
1971 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1969 Mariner 7 flies past Mars
1969 Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars
1969 Mariner 6 flies past Mars
1969 Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars
1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars
1969 Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars
1969 Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby
1968 Lisa Marie [Sliwa], born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, actress, Mars Attack
1965 "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars
1965 U.S. Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
1965 JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars and return
1964 U.S.S.R. launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
1964 Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars
1964 U.S. launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned
1962 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars
1962 Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean
1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn within 16 degrees
1955 Mick Mars, rocker
1955 Mick Mars, guitarst, Motley Crue
1954 Mick Mars, born in Indiana, guitarist, Motley Crue-Girls Girls
1950 Brad Dourif, West Virginia, actor, Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty
1941 Paul Winfield, Louisiana, actor, Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn, Mars Attack
1933 Mars Zakirovich Rafikov, Russian cosmonaut
1924 Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1920 Arthur Franz, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, actor, Invaders From Mars, Young Lions
1918 Marguerite Chapman, born in Chatham, New York, actress, Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars
1915 Lester del Rey, U.S., sci-fi author, Moon Trilogy, Marooned on Mars
1913 Alfred R Wallace, British zoologist (Is Mars habitable?), dies
1911 Leif Erickson, California, actor, Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront
1910 Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75
1895 Charles Lamont, born in San Francisco, California, director, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos
1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, U.S., sci-fi author, Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga
1842 Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher and popularizer of astronomy
1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli, born in Italy, astronomer, discovered canals of Mars
1829 Asaph Hall, discovered satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos
1777 Guillaume Coustou Jr, French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61
1642 Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed
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