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What Happened on August 10

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The First Person to Get Married While in Space:
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko was on the International Space Station when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas at the time of the wedding.

An attack on a train during the Angolan Civil War kills about 250 people:
Rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in Angola derailed a train using an anti-tank mine and opened fire on the passengers.

Magellan Space Probe is Inserted in Orbit Around Venus:
The first spacecraft to be launched by a space shuttle, Magellan was a robotic space probe that spent 8 months gathering data about the surface of the planet also known as Earth’s twin.

  • 1980 Wade Barrett
    English wrestler
  • 1973 Lisa Raymond
    American tennis player
  • 1960 Antonio Banderas
    Spanish actor
  • 1874 Herbert Hoover
    31st President of the United States
  • 2008 Isaac Hayes
    American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, actor
  • 1980 Yahya Khan
    3rd President of Pakistan
  • 1945 Robert H. Goddard
    American physicist, inventor
  • 1932 Rin Tin Tin
    German/American acting dog
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