The Outer Space Treaty was signed to prevent the use of nuclear weapons being utilized in space.
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Apollo 1 test launch failed, and astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee all died.
Steve Jobs announced the Apple iPad, the company's most advanced piece of technology at the time.
Scottish schoolmaster Dr. John Fian who had 'a pact with the devil,' was found guilty of witchcraft.
Leningrad's siege by Germans ended in the wake of 650,000 perished citizens.
A patent for his electric lamp invention was given to Thomas Edison.
