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
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1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines and cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
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1519 Cortez lands in Mexico
