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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.
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English wrestler
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American tennis player
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Spanish actor
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31st President of the United States
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American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, actor
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3rd President of Pakistan
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American physicist, inventor
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