Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)

Members of the band Kiss, from left, Tommy Thayer, Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons and Eric Singer.

NEW YORK (AP) — Rockers Kiss have announced the final
shows of their last tour: The band plans to hang up their
platform boots after two back-to-back shows at Madison
Square Garden in New York at the end of 2023.

The last leg of the band’s 17-date North American tour kicks
off in October in Texas and hits California, Washington,
Canada, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Maryland and then
culminates in their hometown’s famous venue on Dec. 1
and Dec. 2.

The western tv series Bonanza ran on NBC from
September 13, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting
14 seasons and 432 episodes, Bonanza is NBC’s
longest-running western, the second-longest-
running western series on U.S. network television
(behind CBS’s Gunsmoke), and one of the longest-
running, live-action American series.

Pioneer 10, the world’s first outer-planetary probe,was
launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to
Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet, on this day
in 1972.

In December 1973, after successfully negotiating the
asteroid belt and a distance of 620 million miles,
Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter and sent back to Earth
the first close-up images of the spectacular gas giant.

In June 1983, the NASA spacecraft left the solar system
and the next day radioed back the first scientific data on
interstellar space. NASA officially ended the Pioneer 10
project on March 31, 1997, with the spacecraft having
traveled a distance of some six billion miles.