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Today in history:
>1954 – The convention establishing CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) is signed.
>1988 – NASA launches STS-26, the first mission since the Challenger disaster.
>2004 – The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passes within four lunar distances of Earth.
>2004 – Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize.

21 August:
>1993 – NASA loses contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
>2017 – A solar eclipse traverses the continental United States.