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||2012 – The SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station. | ||2012 – The SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station. | ||
||Gyula Kosice (d. 2016) was a Czechoslovakian-born Argentine sculptor, plastic artist, and poet. He was one of the most important figures in kinetic and luminal art and luminance vanguard. | |||
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986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.