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1606 - Created a first flag of Great Britain.
1945 - Died US President Franklin D. Roosevelt 63 years of age.
1961 - Soviet astronomer Yuri Gagarin Alekseyevich (Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin) with Vostok 1 was the first person in the Earth's orbit.
1979 - Spacecraft Soyuz 33 returned to Earth.
1985 - Launched a spaceship Discovery 4 of 16 space mission.
1856 - Born William M Conway, English explorer (Spitzbergen)
WORLD DAY OF Cosmonauts
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1868 - The Shogunate is abolished in Japan.
1900 - The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy
1919 - The International Labour Organization is founded.
1970 - Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
1941 - Frederick "Rick" Hauck, astr (STS-7, STS 51-A, STS-26), born in Long Beach, California
1984 - Soyuz T-11 returns to Earth
1986 - Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km
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837 - Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth
1813 – Died Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736)
1912 - RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage
1925 - Tsaritsyn re-named Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
1932 - Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd)
1955 – Died Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (b. 1881)
1984 - Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
1991 - A rare tropical storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
1996 - Fastest wind speed ever recorded (not a tornado) 408 km/h (220 kn; 253 mph; 113 m/s) during tropical cyclone Olivia on Barrow Island, Australia
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1851 – Was born C E Arthur Wichmann, German geologist.
1870 - Decays American Association against the slavery after the Civil War.
1932 – Was born Jim Fowler, naturalist.
1932 – Was born Vladimir Aleksandrovich Degtyaryov, cosmonaut.
1959 - NASA selects seven astronauts for the project Mekuria.
1963 - Winston Churchill becomes the first honorary citizen of the United States.
1969 - The first flight of Concorde 002 (traveling from Filton-Bristol).
1983 - Sixth Challenger 1 space mission returns to Earth.
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1461 – Died Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)
1732 – Was born David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, and mathematician (d. 1796)
1832 - Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro
1838 - Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol, England, to NYC)
1964 - Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
1993 - STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit