Frederick Langenheim took the first photo of a solar eclipse.
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Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov made the first spacewalk when he left his Voskhod 2 spacecraft.
Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. was selected as the first African-American astronaut.
The dwarf planet Ceres was discovered by an Italian monk called Giuseppe Piazzi.
The Soviet Union launched its second reconnaissance satellite, Kosmos 4.
A conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and the Moon occurred.
