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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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John Glenn
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20 February 1962: Astronaut John Glenn became the first American...
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20 February 1962
Astronaut
John Glenn
became the first
America
n to orbit the earth, circling the globe three times in his spacecraft Friendship Seven.
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“1962: US spaceman orbits Earth”.
BBC News: On This Day
, 20 Feb. 1962.
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