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August 5

5 sourced moments from August 5 in history: The First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable (1858); American Bandstand goes national on ABC (1957); Marilyn Monroe was found dead at 36 (1962), plus 2 more.

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5 things happened on August 5

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2011 Space · Space Exploration

Juno launched in 2011 and took five years to reach Jupiter

NASA's solar-powered Juno left Earth on 5 August 2011 and swung back past Earth for speed before reaching Jupiter in July 2016.

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2010 Earth & Climate · Natural Disasters

33 Chilean miners were trapped underground

A cave-in sealed 33 men half a mile beneath the Atacama Desert, beginning a 69-day ordeal that ended in a televised rescue.

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1962 Culture & Arts · Film & TV

Marilyn Monroe was found dead at 36

Hollywood's brightest star was discovered dead in her Los Angeles home, her death ruled an acute barbiturate poisoning.

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1957 Culture & Arts · Film & TV

American Bandstand goes national on ABC

On 5 August 1957, Dick Clark's Philadelphia teen dance show went out across the ABC network, turning a local programme into a national phenomenon.

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1858 Technology · Engineering

The First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

For a few short weeks in 1858, a fragile copper thread on the ocean floor stitched two continents together in minutes instead of weeks.

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