1984: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered spacewalk around the Space Shuttle.

Birthdays

1817 Frederick Douglass (b 7 Feb 1817, d 20 Feb 1895) the American abolitionist.

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