Julius Wolff supplied the first canned sardines from Maine, USA.
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Sputnik 2 soviet spacecraft burned up, returning through Earth's atmosphere.
The first documented blood transfusion took place using sheep blood in a teenage boy.
A military dog 'Nemo' saved the life of his handler, Airman Robert A. Throneburg, during the Vietnam War.
The UN reported that one million plant and animal species were at risk of extinction.
The Soviet Union sent a dog into space aboard the spacecraft Sputnik II.
