Seriously this happened so close to where I was born ...

Find five events at the time of your birth.

1 .- United States January 17: An earthquake in Los Angeles (California) causes 54 deaths, 5,420 injuries and losses of 35,000 million dollars.
2 .- January 22 - Spain: A Spanish hundred scholars from 20 of the 22 institutions in the world call in Huelva, to their governments to defend the Spanish language and culture.
3rd February 2: At least two hundred people die a train derailed in Kasai (Zaire).
4 .- February 3 - Launch of the shuttle "Discovery" with a Russian astronaut on board, first in an American spacecraft.
5 .- April 5 commits suicide at the age of 27 years the lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, by a shot in the head

Choose one of them, describe in a summary of five lines.

The space shuttle Discovery (NASA designation: OV-103) is one of the three remaining ships in the fleet of NASA's space shuttle, along with Atlantis and Endeavour. The shuttle Discovery is the third operation, and the oldest still in service. He has done research missions and assembling the International Space Station (ISS). The shuttle Discovery was responsible for launching the Hubble Space Telescope. The second and third Hubble service mission were also conducted by Discovery.