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| 1932 |
| January 3rd |
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Soviet
cosmonaut Anatoly Kuklin was born in the Chelyabinsk
Region of Russia. Served as back-up crew commander for Boris
Volynov of the Soyuz 5 mission on the 15th January
1969. |
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| March 15th |
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NASA
astronaut Alan Bean was born in Wheeler, Texas. He served
as backup astronaut for the Gemini 10 and Apollo 9
missions and was the Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 12, 14th
- 24th November 1969. |
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| March 16th |
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NASA
astronaut Walter Cunningham was born in Creston, Iowa.
Cunningham was the Lunar Module pilot for the eleven-day flight
of Apollo 7, 11th - 22nd October 1968. |
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| April 29th |
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Soviet
cosmonaut Dmitry Zaikin was born in the Rostov Region
of Russia. Zaikin served as back-up for Pavel Belyaev
for the Voskhod 2 mission on the 18th March 1965. |
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| June 6th |
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NASA
astronaut David Scott was born in San Antonio, Texas.
He served on Gemini 8, CM Pilot on the Apollo 9,
and Commander of the Apollo 15 Moon mission, 25th July - 7th
August 1971. |
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| September
26th |
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NASA
astronaut Clifton Williams was born in Mobile, Alabama.
Back-up pilot for the Gemini 10 mission. He was killed
near Tallahassee, Florida, in the crash of a T-38 jet on the
5th October 1967. |
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In
the election the Nazi party won 230 seats in the Reichstag,
and became the largest party. |
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Franklin
D. Roosevelt won the 1932 presidential election by largest the
margin of any candidate since US Grant. |
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Werner
Heisenberg, German physicist who developed 'Quantum Theory'
and the 'Uncertainty Principle', won the Nobel Prize. |
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Emperor
Haile Selassie abolished slavery in Ethiopia. |
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Amelia
Earhart became the first female aviator to fly solo across the
Atlantic. |
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Bolivia
and Paraguay clashed in the 'Chaco War'. |
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Aldous
Huxley's 'Brave New World' was published. |
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Sydney
Harbour Bridge, Sydney, Australia, was completed and opened. |
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