2013 Event Vietnam evacuates 600,00 citizens as Typhoon Haiyan heads towards the country 2013 Event The People's Republic of China and the U.S. agree to work towards eliminating nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula 2012 Event Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Jamaica and heads towards The Bahamas 2010 Event Ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano drifts towards Europe, causing air traffic to close over Northern Norway 1990 Event Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun 1990 Event Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon 1977 Event NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune 1974 Event 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away 1968 Birthday Sarah McLachlan, folk singer, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 1966 Event U.S.S.R. launches Luna 9 towards Moon 1964 Event U.S.S.R. launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned 1964 Death Edwin John Pratt, Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81 1944 Event General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris 1901 Event Belgium's Louise of den Plas begins activities towards women rights 1897 Event Solomon Andree leaves Spitsbergen by balloon towards North Pole 1862 Event Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington D.C. 1862 Event Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson march towards Romney, WV 1808 Event Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain 1732 Event King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia
