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Cassini studied Saturn, its rings and moons for 13 years, Huygens made the first landing in the outer Solar System on Titan, and the spacecraft ended its mission by diving into Saturn.
Mitch killed about 11,000 people, left thousands more missing and over 2 million homeless or displaced, and destroyed infrastructure and harvests across Central America.
2,977 people were killed and the World Trade Center destroyed; the United States launched the War on Terror, beginning with the invasion of Afghanistan.
All seven astronauts died; the shuttle fleet was grounded for two and a half years and its retirement was decided.
Between about 1,400 and 1,800 people died, New Orleans was flooded for weeks, and damage reached about 125 billion dollars, among the costliest US disasters.
The iPhone popularised the touchscreen smartphone and, with the App Store from 2008, helped make mobile devices the main way people use the internet.
About 525 people died, many in the tsunami; damage reached about 30 billion US dollars, but modern buildings largely withstood the shaking.
All 33 trapped miners were brought to the surface alive in the Fénix 2 capsule on 12-13 October 2010.
Eleven workers died and about 3-4 million barrels of oil escaped; BP paid more than 60 billion dollars in fines, settlements and clean-up costs.
Port-au-Prince was devastated, with deaths estimated from under 100,000 to over 300,000 and about 1.5 million people made homeless.
The fossil, named Borealopelta markmitchelli in 2017, is one of the best-preserved armoured dinosaurs ever found, retaining its armour, skin and traces of pigment.
Sandy killed at least 230 people across eight countries and caused about 65-70 billion US dollars of damage in the United States, prompting major coastal resilience programmes.
