The news is all in a tizzy about how historical this day is. It's the 44th person to have done this, and it's been done more times than that because numerous American Presidents have done it more than once.
No the real historical significance of this day is the black plague outbreak in Algeria. A serious terrorist organization has really tried to move into the biological weapons field. This was a frightful set back for them, but I'm sure they will try again.
It is historical because of new discovers of exosolar planets. Less than a decade ago we were still struggling to narrow down the search to verifiable evidence of planets outside our solar system. Now we are finding multiple per month, and gaining critical insight about each planet.
The Sri Lanki civil war is almost over with and the Columbian civil war is winding down with the government forces of law and order coming out on top in both cases. Both wars have lasted over 30 years and killed numbers in the hundreds of thousands.
Yes it is a historical day, but not for the reason so many people seem to think. Look around, there are more important things going on in the world.
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