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This day in history 1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space

On June 16, 1963, aboard Vostok 6, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space. After 48 orbits and 71 hours, she returned to earth, having spent more time in space than all U.S. astronauts combined to that date.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was born to a peasant family in Maslennikovo, Russia, in 1937. She began work at a textile factory when she was 18, and at age 22 she made her first parachute jump under the auspices of a local aviation club. Her enthusiasm for skydiving brought her to the attention of the Soviet space program, which sought to put a woman in space in the early 1960s as a means of achieving another “space first” before the United States. As an accomplished parachutist, Tereshkova was well equipped to handle one of the most challenging procedures of a Vostok space flight: the mandatory ejection from the capsule at about 20,000 feet during reentry. In February 1962, she was selected along with three other woman parachutists and a female pilot to begin intensive training to become a cosmonaut.

In 1963, Tereshkova was chosen to take part in the second dual flight in the Vostok program, involving spacecrafts Vostok 5 and Vostok 6. On June 14, 1963, Vostok 5 was launched into space with cosmonaut Valeri Bykovsky aboard. With Bykovsky still orbiting the earth, Tereshkova was launched into space on June 16 aboard Vostok 6. The two spacecrafts had different orbits but at one point came within three miles of each other, allowing the two cosmonauts to exchange brief communications. Tereshkova’s spacecraft was guided by an automatic control system, and she never took manual control. On June 19, after just under three days in space, Vostok 6 reentered the atmosphere, and Tereshkova successfully parachuted to earth after ejecting at 20,000 feet. Bykovsky and Vostok 5 landed safely a few hours later.

After her historic space flight, Valentina Tereshkova received the Order of Lenin and Hero of the Soviet Union awards. In November 1963, she married fellow cosmonaut Andrian Nikolayev, reportedly under pressure from Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who saw a propaganda advantage in the pairing of the two single cosmonauts. The couple made several goodwill trips abroad, had a daughter, and later separated. In 1966, Tereshkova became a member of the Supreme Soviet, the USSR’s national parliament, and she served as the Soviet representative to numerous international women’s organizations and events. She never entered space again, and hers was the last space flight by a female cosmonaut until the 1980s.

The United States screened a group of female pilots in 1959 and 1960 for possible astronaut training but later decided to restrict astronaut qualification to men. The first American woman in space was astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, who served as mission specialist on a flight of the space shuttle Challenger in 1983.
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When I went to college - at Cornell, University of Vermont, Georgetown, and USC, in the 70s and early 80s - there were two types of buildings on East Coast university campuses: The old brick and mortar buildings where they taught English, history, economics, geography and so forth, and the modern new steel-and-glass math and science buildings, built with gubbermint money after Sputnik. The response to the Russians beating us into space was huge.
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Statue of Sally Ride, first American woman in space, unveiled at aviation museum

With the crowd cheering "Ride, Sally Ride," a monument to the first American woman to fly into space was unveiled Friday (June 17) outside an air and space museum in Long Island, New York*.

"Tomorrow marks the 39th anniversary of Sally Ride's first flight, so it is very fitting that we are here to unveil this wonderful statue today," said Andy Parton, president of the museum.

The 7-foot-tall (2 meters) bronze and gold sculpture depicts Ride in the same inflight coveralls that she wore on the space shuttle Challenger to become America's first female astronaut and only the third woman in the world to launch into space on June 18, 1983. The statue captures Ride stepping forward while she holds up a model of her winged spacecraft toward the sky.

"The First American Woman in Space" monument was a gift to the museum, underwritten by the Matson Family Foundation, entrepreneur Peter Diamandis on behalf of the X PRIZE Foundation and the former First Lady of California, Maria Shriver.
* While the missus and daughter are away, V, you could see the new statue.
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Heck, we'll all go see it together when they get back. :thumbsup:
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Stonewall Riots

The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, began in the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York City. The raid sparked a riot among bar patrons and neighborhood residents as police roughly hauled employees and patrons out of the bar, leading to six days of protests and violent clashes with law enforcement outside the bar on Christopher Street, in neighboring streets and in nearby Christopher Park. The Stonewall Riots served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.


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on this date in 1863, Vicksburg fell to General Grant.

in response the residents refused to celebrate the 4th of july for almost 100 years.

sore losers.



on a related note, on July 3, 1863, A Minnesota regiment captured the colors of a Virginia unit.

Minnesota still tells Virginia to FOAD whenever they ask for it back.

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175 years ago - August 7, 1847 - First ever railroad line opens service in Switzerland

Operated on a track between the city of Zürich and the spa town Baden (canton Aargau / Argovia)

At the time Baden was known for producing a speciality of "Spanish bread rolls". The wealthy citizens of Zurich would send their houshold staff early in the mornings to fetch them by horse and get them fresh for breakfast. With the new train service the staff could make the return trip within a couple of hours, even delivering the bread rolls still warm. As such the train became known as the "Spanisch Brötli Bahn".

The open steam locomotive is an iconic symbol in Switzerland. I understand the original is on show at the Transportation Museum in Lucerne.

Picture taken on track in 1947 for the centennial celebrations.

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raison de arizona wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 10:14 am ImageImage
Well, the future is finally here! I've been waiting my whole life for it to come. I was hoping for a flying car but all we have are Teslas, prone to catching fire at random intervals and built by a manic narcissistic loon.
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He was born today. He has 40 more years for flying cars to be developed. Shirley, JPC, you'll be here in 40 years! :biggrin:
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And Gregg sees a new business opportunity to sell transmissions ;)
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RTH10260 wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 12:03 pm And Gregg sees a new business opportunity to sell transmissions ;)
I don't know much about cars. Where does the transmission go in this thing?

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At the end of the stick he's holding? :think:
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Between the clutch and the flux capacitor.

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Are those o-rings on the legs?
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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:02 am Are those o-rings on the legs?
archaic precursors to Michelin tires

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The safety features of that vehicle in the 2060s are about the same as the features in the 1960s. He is sitting on a bench seat with no seat belt and plenty of glass to slam your brain through. Probably a good thing it doesn't have an airbag because the only place to put it would slam his legs into his abdomen.
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manic narcissistic loon.
Bravo, JPC! That’s the most succinct and accurate Musk description ever!
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Beauchamp
George Delmetia Beauchamp (/ˈbiːtʃəm/[citation needed]; March 18, 1899 – March 30, 1941) was an American inventor of musical instruments. He is known for designing the first electrically amplified stringed instrument to be marketed commercially. He was also a founder of National Stringed Instrument Corporation and Rickenbacker (originally Rickenbacher) guitars.

. In 1931, he joined with Paul Barth and Adolph Rickenbacker to form the Ro-Pat-In Corporation to produce and sell electrified string instruments. The most notable of these, the Rickenbacher A-22 (and A-25) lapsteel guitar – known as the "frying pan" – is widely regarded as the first mass-produced electric guitar. Production of the instrument began in 1932. In 1937, Beauchamp secured a United States patent for his version of the electric guitar.
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America's love affair with exotic Hawaiian music gives musician George Beauchamp a reason to turn up the volume, as acoustic guitars just aren't loud enough to please large crowds. He receives a patent on his 'Frying Pan,' a cast-aluminum guitar with amplifying electric pickups, which he had created in 1931.
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Beauchamp also had a hand in the development of the Dobro Resonator guitar
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Susan Hendrickson (born December 2, 1949) is an American explorer and fossil collector. Hendrickson is best known for her discovery of the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex in South Dakota on August 12, 1990 in the Cheyenne River Reservation. Her discovery is one of the most complete skeletons of Tyrannosaurus known to science. This skeleton is now known as "Sue" in honor of her. It is on display at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. She has also found other important fossils and artifacts around the world.
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In 1965 the Beatles performed on this date in Shea Stadium.
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50 years ago - September 05, 1972 - Massacre at Munich Olympics
During the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, in the early morning of September 5, a group of Palestinian terrorists storms the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes, killing two and taking nine others hostage. The terrorists were part of a group known as Black September, in return for the release of the hostages, they demanded that Israel release over 230 Arab prisoners being held in Israeli jails and two German terrorists.

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RTH10260 wrote: Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:47 pm 50 years ago - September 05, 1972 - Massacre at Munich Olympics
During the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, in the early morning of September 5, a group of Palestinian terrorists storms the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes, killing two and taking nine others hostage. The terrorists were part of a group known as Black September, in return for the release of the hostages, they demanded that Israel release over 230 Arab prisoners being held in Israeli jails and two German terrorists.

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This is probably my earliest memory of a significant event. I was into the Olympics that year, and this was shocking.
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