On August 6, 1996, NASA and Stanford researchers announce they have found signs of Martian life in a meteorite discovered 12 years earlier in Allan Hills, Antarctica, causing a worldwide sensation. But some viewed the announcement skeptically, and the Martian life connection was later debunked.
A NASA spokesman initially called the evidence of fossilized, one-celled organisms in the meteorite, called ALH 84001, “exciting, even compelling, but not conclusive.”
“I want everyone to understand that we are not talking about ‘little green men,’ ” he said, according to the Washington Post. “These are extremely small, single-cell creatures that somewhat resemble bacteria on Earth. There is no evidence or suggestion that any higher life form ever existed on Mars.”
After decades of bloody animosity, representatives of Israel and Palestine meet on the South Lawn of the White House and sign a framework for peace. The “Declaration of Principles” was the first agreement between the […]
Suffragist organizers hold the first-ever National Women’s Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 23, 1850. More than 1,000 delegates from 11 states arrived for the two-day conference, which had been planned by members of […]
On November 6, 1962, the United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calling on all its members to end economic and military relations with the country. In effect […]
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