6h 39min, aug 1, 1969 y - Deep Sea Drilling Program
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The deep sea research vessel Glomar Challenger departs on a 15 year expedition known as the Deep Sea Drilling Program. This important because the ages of samples provides solid evidence for the theory of seafloor spreading, which would eventually gives rise to the modern theory of plate tectonics
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