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First Spacewalk

Extravehicular activity (EVA) is any activity done by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside a spacecraft beyond the Earth's appreciable a...

First Liquid-fueled Rocket Launched

A liquid-fueled rocket or a liquid rocket is a rocket engine that uses liquid propellants. Liquids are desirable because their reasonably ...

Symbolics.com Registered

Symbolics refers to two companies: now-defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., and a privately held company that acquired the as...

The Godfather Premiered

The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy from a screenplay by Mario Pu...

Uranus Discovered

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar Syste...