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The Rocket Rider: Vikram Sarabhai's Space Dream

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The Rocket Rider: Vikram Sarabhai's Space Dream

How India's Space Program Began with a Vision and a Bicycle

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1977
Twelve gunmen seized three buildings in Washington, D.C., and took 149 hostages in a 39-hour standoff that ended in two deaths.
1967
Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, defected to the United States.
1959
The popular fashion doll Barbie debuted at the American International Toy Fair in New York City.
1957
The Andreanof Islands earthquake struck Hawaii and the Aleutian Islands, causing more than $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
1956
In Tbilisi, Georgia, soldiers suppressed mass demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's policy of de-Stalinization.
1946
Thirty-three people were killed in a human crush at Burnden Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.

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