Today
: Important things
462
– Possible start
of first Byzantine
indiction cycle.
1804 – Juno, one
of the largest main
belt asteroids,
is discovered by
German astronomer
Karl Ludwig Harding.
1906 – The International
Federation of Intellectual
Property Attorneys
is established.
1979 – The American
space probe Pioneer
11 becomes the first
spacecraft to visit
Saturn when it passes
the planet at a
distance of 21,000
kilometres (13,000
mi).