On this day:
1956: Tunisia gains its independence from France
1978: World’s first test-tube baby, Louise Joy Brown, is born
1984: Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the First Woman to Walk in Space
2007: Pratibha Patil is sworn in as India’s first female President
Born on this day:
1920: Rosalind Franklin, English scientist
Gone on this day:
1980: Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, actor, poet
1834: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, philosopher
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