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||1984: Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
||1984: Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.


||1987: Charles Stark "Doc" Draper dies ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA.
||1987: Charles Stark Draper dies ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+stark+draper


||1995: Toru Kumon dies ... mathematician, academic, educator. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=toru+kumon&oq=Toru+Kumon
||1995: Toru Kumon dies ... mathematician, academic, educator. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=toru+kumon&oq=Toru+Kumon

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