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Today in history:
>1712 – Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer and engineer, died (born 1625).
>1954 – In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
>1958 – The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
>1959 – The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
>2015 – The first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.

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