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14th October: Dwight D. Eisenhower is born. (near Abilene, Texas)
Tuesday 14th October: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier.
Friday 4th October: Sputnik One launched, starting the Space Race. (Soviet Union)
Project Mercury begins. (Cape Canaveral, Fla)
Wednesday 12th April: First Manned Space Flight, Yuri Gagarin. (Soviet Union)
Thursday 22nd February: Astronaunt John Glenn makes his first orbital flight. (Cape Canaveral)
May: Gordon Cooper made the last and longest of the Mercury flights. (Cape Canaveral, Fla)