08-05-2003, 11:10 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: near Chicago
Posts: 3,025
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Other details from 1962:
* First use of Agent Orange defoliant in Vietnam.
* Barbara Striesand signs her first recording contract, with Columbia Records.
* John Glenn becomes first American to orbit the Earth.
* Bell Telephone introduces radio paging in the U.S.
* First communications satellite Telstar I is launched, allowing transcontinental audio and video transmissions.
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