1945In the final month of World War II in Europe, the top allied leaders meet at Yalta in Ukraine , then part of the Soviet Union. President Franklin Roosevelt, Britains Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin discuss plans for Nazi Germanys
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March 18th, 1965 - Aleksei Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space. The cosmonaut from whats then the Soviet Union leaves his Voskhod 2 capsule secured by a tether. Astronaut Ed White makes the first American space walk months later. 1922 -
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