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** The BBC launches the world's first regular ( then ) high-definition television service.
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** WWII: A BBC broadcast by " Colonel Britton " calls on the people of occupied Europe to resist the Nazis under the slogan " V for Victory ".
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** and launches
** The Nickelodeon Television Channel, a children's cartoon channel, launches as The Pinwheel Network.
** The Soviet Union launches 2 scientific satellites, Elektron I and II, from a single rocket.
** Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet in July 1965.
** NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
** STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
** NASA launches the Cassini – Huygens probe to Saturn.
** Space Age – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.
** The Soviet Union launches Venera 6 toward Venus.
** The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 4.
** Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 ( James McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart ) to test the lunar module.
** The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon ( Sri Lanka ); the Royal Navy aircraft carrier and Royal Australian Navy destroyer are sunk off the country's East Coast.
** Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II.
** The Empire of Japan launches invasions in Hong Kong, Malaya, Manila, Singapore and the Philippines.
** NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
** Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3 stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles ( the only sounding rocket developed in Germany ).
** NASA launches Syncom 2, the world's first geostationary ( synchronous ) satellite.
** Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission ( Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham ).
** France launches a counter-coup in the Comoros with 600 soldiers.
** The Soviet Union successfully launches the Luna 1 spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome.
** Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
** The United States launches the first weather satellite, TIROS-1.
** United States launches navigation satellite Transit I-b.
** Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches the satellite Sputnik 5, with the dogs Belka and Strelka ( the Russian for " Squirrel " and " Little Arrow "), 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
** The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
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