Phonograph | Iwo Jima | Plane Crash | Mir | Fidel Castro | (ENGLISH #22)
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Date: 19/02/2021

*2008 Fidel Castro steps down as Cuba's president
Castro was 81 years old at the time and had been in power for 49 years.

*1986 The “Mir” Space Station is launched
The Soviet vehicle was the world's first modular space station and remained in orbit for 15 years.

*1985 Iberia Airlines Flight 610 crashes
All 148 people on board died in the accident that was blamed on pilot error.

*1945 U.S. troops land on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima
The photo showing 4 marines erecting a U.S. flag on the island has become one of the best-known images of World War II.

*1878 Thomas Edison patents the phonograph
It was the first machine able to reproduce recorded sound.


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