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Made by Kodak, the projector could hold 80 slides
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Navy launches USS George Washington. First submarine to carry nuclear missiles.
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The Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to enter space and orbit the Earth. The first space craft was launch from Russia. He helped to boost the Soviet space program and intensify the space race with the United States.
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MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club was the birthplace of hacker culture in the early '60s, and one of its members' passions was the PDP-1 computer that had recently been installed at the school. The PDP-1 was about the size of three refrigerators and cost, in 2012 money, about $1 million. In other words, it was very small and ridiculously cheap. Programmer Steve Russell and his fellow proto-nerds took inspiration from the sci-fi novels they loved and came up with Spacewar!,
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On July 10, 1962 Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin receives a U.S. patent for the three-point, lap-and-shoulder vehicle safety belt. It's considered one of the most important and widespread safety innovations of all time. Bohlin received letters from all over the world from thankful car-crash survivors.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded.
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The ”Shinkansen” began service on 1 October in time for the Tokyo Olympics. The conventional Limited Express service took six hours and 40 minutes from Tokyo to Osaka, but the Shinkansen made the trip in just four hours, shortened to three hours and ten minutes by 1965.
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Between 2,000 to 3,000 prints can be produced per an hour
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The Bar Code was invented in 1966. The inventor was Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver. It was first used commercially in that year.
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First artificial heart invented.
