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Daily Archive for October 22nd, 2011

October 22

1975 The Russian unmanned spacecraft Venera 9 made a successful landing on the surface of Venus. Its orbiter was the first spacecraft to orbit Venus, while the lander was the first to return images from the surface of another planet. 1881 American physicist Clinton Davisson was born in Bloomington, Illinois. He won the 1937 Nobel [...]

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