Nicolaus Copernicus was born on this day in 1473, in Torun, a place in north-central Poland. Copernicus , the father of modern astronomy, put to rest the idea that the sun, moon, and planets revolved around Earth. Copernicus said Earth, the planets, and the moon revolved around the sun.

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John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth aboard Friendship 7, a Mercury space capsule, on this day in 1962. Prior to becoming one of the seven original American astronauts, Glenn was a pilot in the U.S Marines. Glenn returned to space aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1998.

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February 4

On this day in 1974, newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, the nineteen-year-old daughter of Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped from her Berkeley, California, apartment by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army - SLA. Three days later, the SLA announced that it was holding Hearst as a "prisoner of war" and demanded that R Hearst provid $70 in food to every needy person from Santa Rosa to Los Angeles. After Hearst reluctantly gave away $2 million in food, the kidnappers demanded that the tycoon give away $6 million more. The kidnapping took a bizarre turn in April when a surveillance camera caught Patty Hearst robbing a San Francisco bank. She declared in a tape sent authorities that she had joined the SLA of her own free will.

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