📖 Yearbook

🗓️ On This Day

Most Iconic Opening Night: Those billowing white sails finally welcomed the public to Sydney's harbor after 14 years of construction drama and budget blowouts.

🚀 Science & Space

Most Stellar Road Trip: This NASA spacecraft became the first to swing by the solar system's biggest planet, sending back close-up pics of those famous swirling storms.

💡 Innovation & Loss

Most Connected Innovator: A Motorola engineer made the first handheld mobile phone call on a New York sidewalk, ringing up his rival at Bell Labs to gloat.

👑 Power & Headlines

Most Dramatic Regime Change: A South American democracy fell to a military coup on September 11th, installing a general who'd rule with an iron fist for nearly two decades.