THIS WEEK IN HISTORY
- 09 Feb - 15 Feb, 2019
16 June, 1963: A Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman astronaut.
17 June, 1885: The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York.
18 June, 1948: The 33 rpm microgroove vinyl Long Playing (LP) record developed by Columbia Records is introduced.
19 June, 1978: Garfield, the lazy cat makes his debut after the first Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis appeared in 41 newspapers.
20 June, 1975: Steven Spielberg's thriller, Jaws, is premiered.
21 June, 1953: Political leader and Pakistan’s first female Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, is born.
22 June, 1986: Diego Maradona coins the phrase “Hand of God”.
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