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    One of the fathers of television, Vladimir Zworykin, despised what it had become, and once said of it, “I would never let my own children watch it.”

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The Vanguard 2 early weather satellite was launched

On the 17th February, 1959, an early weather satellite known as the Vanguard 2 was launched, which orbited the Earth, studying cloud cover levels.

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