On this day:
1970: The Soviet Union launches the Luna 16, the first robotic probe to land on the Moon
1992: First African American Woman, Mae Jemison, goes into Space
Gone on this day:
1977: Robert Lowell, American poet
2008: David Foster Wallace, American author
2009: Norman Borlaug, American agronomist, humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate
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