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    Otis Redding recorded his song, “Dock of the Bay” just three days before being killed in a plane crash.

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The first weather observation satellite was launched, producing the first TV images from space

On the 1st April, 1960, the first weather observation satellite, Tiros I, was launched, which produced the first television images from space.

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