On June 16, 1963, the Vostok 6 launched 🚀 Valentina Tereshkova into space

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Valentina Tereshkova says hello 👋 from space

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On June 4, 1896, Henry Ford 1st rolled out his invention he called the Quadricycle. His first car was a simple frame with an ethanol-powered engine and four bicycle wheels mounted on it @facethenation

Henry Ford driving in his first car

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Robert Goddard is the father of American rocketry. He successfully launched the first liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926 @facethenation

Robert Goddard performs the first flight test of a liquid-fueled rocket 🚀💥

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Fidel Castro's love for baseball is well known. He even created a team filled with revolutionaries that would play before exhibition games called Los Barbudos @facethenation

Fidel Castro ⚾️ pitched two innings in an exhibition game in 1959

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Apollo 16 astronaut 👨‍🚀 Charlie Duke trains for the Moon at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, November 30, 1971 @facethenation

Charlie Duke falls down 🤷‍♂️ on the Moon 🌔

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Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy and winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics @facethenation

Guglielmo Marconi sent first wireless transmission (Morse code signal for the letter "s") across the Atlantic Ocean on December 12, 1901

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Charles Conrad taking a sample of the lunar surface. Apollo 12, the second mission to the Moon, landed on November 19, 1969 @facethenation

Charles Conrad on the Moon

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Wang Weilin, a 19-year-old student, stood in front of a column of tanks in 1989 and in doing so became one of the most powerful protesters of the 20th century @facethenation

The "Tank Man" stopping the column of tanks on June 5, 1989, the morning after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 by force

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During a spacewalk on the 1966 Gemini 12 mission, Buzz Aldrin took a moment to turn his camera around and take the first selfie, in space @facethenation

Buzz Aldrin and the first space 📸 selfie

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Aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright made history December 17, 1903, with the first successful controlled flight @facethenation

Wright Brothers ✈️ first flight

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