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India gets its first female president:
Pratibha Patil, stayed in office as the head of state for 5 years.
Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the First Woman to Walk in Space:
She spent 3.5 hours in space testing tools. Svetlana Savitskaya was also the second woman to go into space and the first to go to space twice.
World’s first test tube baby is born
Louise Joy Brown was the first person to be conceived using in-vitro fertilization or IVF technology, pioneered by doctors Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards.
The famous Face on Mars photo is taken
Viking 1, the first space probe to successfully land on Mars took the famous photo of the Cydonia region on the Red Planet.
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Brazilian race car driver
- 1951 Jack Thompson
American lawyer, activist
- 1941 Emmett Till
American murder victim
- 2009 Harry Patch
British super-centenarian, last survivor of the WWI trenches
- 1997 Ben Hogan
American golfer
- 1980 Vladimir Vysotsky
Russian singer-songwriter, actor, poet
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