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||1949 – Doug Marlette, American author and cartoonist (d. 2007)
||1949 – Doug Marlette, American author and cartoonist (d. 2007)
||Frans Michel Penning (d. 6 December 1953) was a Dutch experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic.


||1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. - The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed with an explosion (pictured) on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.
||1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. - The first U.S. attempt to launch a satellite failed with an explosion (pictured) on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral.

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