JANUARY 31
1961:Ham the chimp becomes the first primate in space after he is successfully launched and recovered in a forerunner to the United States’ first manned Mercury mission. Exactly three years earlier, America entered the space race with the launch of the Explorer 1 satellite. Exactly a decade later, astronauts Alan B. Shepard Jr., Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa blast off on Apollo 14, the third successful manned mission to the moon.
1945: U.S. Army Pvt. Eddie Slovik is shot and killed by a firing squad near Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France, during World War II, becoming the first American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War.
1990: A McDonald’s fast food restaurant opens for the first time in Moscow, bringing an iconic symbol of American capitalism to the Soviet Union.
1945: U.S. Army Pvt. Eddie Slovik is shot and killed by a firing squad near Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, France, during World War II, becoming the first American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War.
1990: A McDonald’s fast food restaurant opens for the first time in Moscow, bringing an iconic symbol of American capitalism to the Soviet Union.
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