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Events
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Street
Children‘s Day
2009 marked the 75th anniversary
of the canonisation of John Bosco,
the "Father and Teacher of
Youth“.
1747
– The first venereal diseases
clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1915 – World War I: Germany uses
poison gas against Russia
1945 – World War II: About 3,000
inmates from the Stutthof concentration
camp are forcibly marched into
the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now
Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
1946 – Yugoslavia's new constitution,
modeling the Soviet Union, establishes
six constituent republics (Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia,
Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1950 – US President Harry S. Truman
announces a program to develop
the hydrogen bomb.
1953 – A North Sea flood causes
over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
1958 – Explorer program: Explorer
1 – The first successful launch
of an American satellite into
orbit.
1958 – James Van Allen discovers
the Van Allen radiation belt.
1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone
2 – Ham the Chimp travels into
outer space.
1966 – The Soviet Union launches
the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft
as part of the Luna program.
1968 – Nauru gains independence
from Australia.
1971 – Apollo program: Apollo
14 – Astronauts Alan Shepard,
Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell,
aboard a Saturn V, lift off for
a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands
on the Moon.
1996 – Comet Hyakutake is discovered
by Japanese amateur astronomer
Yuji Hyakutake.
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