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In July 1975, Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts met in space and shook hands
Richard Nixon's contingency speech in case the moon landing astronauts never made it home
On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk
On 23 October 2004, Brazil launched its first rocket following a devastating accident
In March 2015, 22 people were killed when two gunmen stormed the building
In 1997, a Gambian woman started an environmental initiative
On 12 March 1990, hundreds of wheelchair s crawled up the steps of the US Capitol
South Africa’s first musical with an all-black cast opened to critical acclaim in 1959
The Global Positioning System, also known as GPS, was created in the late 1970s
In 1965, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was brought in to end racial discrimination
