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- 467 - Anthemius became Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 1633 - The formal interrogation of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition began.
- 1961 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to enter outer space.
- 1980 - Terry Fox dipped his artificial leg in the Atlantic Ocean and began his trans-Canada run towards the Pacific Ocean to raise money for cancer research.
- 1981 - Columbia, the first space shuttle, was launched for its first flight.
Today seems to have been a particularly cool day in world/space history.
This post was posted by Unknown at 3:52 pm
