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 2012 Event New findings from MESSENGER, NASA's space probe, indicate almost definitively, that the north pole of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun, has water ice buried beneath the surface 1991 Event Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes 1943 Birthday John Cipollina, San Francisco Cal, rock guitarist, Quicksilver Messenger Service 1940 Birthday Dino Valenti, rock guitarist and vocalist, Quicksilver Messenger Service 1938 Birthday David Freiberg, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rock bassist, Quicksilver Messenger 1928 Event 1st TV drama-WGY's Queens Messenger 1887 Birthday Clive Brook, born in London, England, actor and director, List of Adrian Messenger 1808 Death Messenger, horse that sired many great trotters, dies
