October 18, 2014

That fall of 2014, gas ran $3.37 a gallon and Obama was in the White House — the U.S. was sending up to 3,000 troops to West Africa to combat the Ebola outbreak, one of the largest American military responses to a public health crisis in history. On screens and speakers, "Game of Thrones" was the Emmy-winning drama everyone was talking about, while Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" sat at number one on the charts for weeks. The San Francisco Giants won the World Series over the Kansas City Royals in a tense seven-game series, the same fall that ESA's Philae probe made history by landing on Comet 67P — the first time any spacecraft had ever touched down on a comet.