On this day, space/science/tech history (Oct 12th)

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1860 Elmer A Sperry inventor (gyrocompass) is born<br />1870 Robert E Lee General of the Confederate Army, dies at 63 (not science or space but interesting)<br />1891 Astronomical Society of France is inaugurated <br />1918 1st use of iron lung (Boston's Children Hospital) <br />1932 Jake Garn (Sen-R-Ut)/astronaut (STS 51D) is born<br />1957 1st coml flight between Calif & Antartica <br />1962 US/USSR sign joint space effort in telecommunications & meteorology<br />1964 Launch of Voskhod 1, 1st 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov) <br />1969 Soyuz 7 is launched <br />1972 Mariner 9 takes pictures of Martian north pole<br />1975 NASA launches space vehicle S-195 <br />1976 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach & land test (ALT) flight <br />1977 4th test of the space shuttle Enterprise<br />1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61A mission <br /><br />Source: http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/