April

On This Day – April

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5 – 1975 After a Soyuz space launch fails, two cosmonauts crash land on a remote mountain. The Soviet Union refuses to acknowledge the flight even took place. Read more

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29 – 1876 The world’s first indoor ice-rink, invented by John Gamgee, opens to the public in Chelsea, London.

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