The
Soviet cosmonaut was part of the Soyuz T-12 mission, which docked at
the Salyut 7 Space station. As part of the mission, she spent 3.5 hours
in space testing tools. Savitskaya was also the second woman to go into
space and the first to go to space twice.
Louise
Joy Brown was the first person to be conceived using in-vitro
fertilization or IVF technology, pioneered by doctors Patrick Steptoe
and Robert Edwards.
1976 The famous Face on Mars photo is taken
Viking 1, the first space probe to successfully land on Mars took the famous photo of the Cydonia region on the Red Planet.
1956 Tunisia gains its independence from France
The
northernmost African country, became a French protectorate in 1881,
under the Treaty of Bardo. The path to independence in the country was
marred by civil unrest and conflict and was led by Habib Bourguiba, who
became the first president of the independent country.
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