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John Glenn was born
John Glenn was born in Cambridge Ohio -
John Glenn joined Muskingum College
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John Glenn quit college and joined the Navy
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John Glenn was in the military
Glenn accumulated nearly 9,000 hours of flying time, about 3,000 of it in jets -
John Glenn married Annie Glenn
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John Glenn flew his 149 mission
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John Glenn was the first american in space on Friendship 7 with Alan Shepard
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Glenn was awarded the John J. Montgomery Award
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Elections
John Glenn ran in elections 7 times. -
John Glenn retired
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John Glenn had his awards and medals stolen
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Glenn flew on the STS-95 Discovery shuttle flight
9-day mission during which the crew supported a variety of research payloads including deployment of the Spartan solar-observing spacecraft, the Hubble Space Telescope Orbital Systems Test Platform, and Glenn's investigations on space flight and the aging process. -
John Glenn was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal
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In June 2014, Glenn underwent successful heart valve replacement surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.
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Glenn died
Glenn died on December 8, 2016, at the OSU Wexner Medical Center; he was 95 years old with a total of at least 12 government awarded awards
