On this day:
1969: Apollo 12 launched
1971: The first spacecraft to orbit a planet. Mariner 9 orbited Mars
Born on this day:
1898: Benjamin Fondane, Romanian/French poet, critic, philosopher
1889: Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister
Gone on this day:
1831: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher
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