This Day in History
Soviet Sputnik 3, the first multipurpose space-science satellite placed into orbit. The Sputnik …
Tass/Sovfoto 1957: Sputnik 1 launched by U.S.S.R.
On this day in 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, which orbited the Earth until 1958, inaugurated the space age, and heightened Cold War competition between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.
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1822: Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States (1877–81), who brought post-Civil War Reconstruction to an end in the South, was born.
1535: The first complete English Bible, the work of Miles Coverdale, came off the press either in Zürich (Switzerland) or in Cologne (Germany).
1190: Richard I (the Lion-Heart), on his way to Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, invaded a hostile Sicily and took the key city of Messina. |
