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One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1951
Soviet dogs Dezik and Tsygan rode a rocket to the edge of space and parachuted back alive, the first living creatures to survive a spaceflight. Their journey helped prove humans could go too.
Source: Wikipedia
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