Indian Independence / Wow! signal received - August 15

India became independent from the British Empire on this day in 1947, an event that is also intrinsically connected to the independence of Pakistan and the partition of the two nations. / On this day in 1977, the radio telescope Big Ear received the Wow! signal, which many people believed to be a sign of extraterrestrial intelligence.

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