Notable events that happened on this day in history.

2016: Former astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn dies at 95. Glenn was part of NASA’s first group of astronauts in 1959, and was the first American to orbit the Earth in the Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft in 1962. He flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998. Pictured, Glenn in a Project Mercury publicity photo in 1962.PHOTOS: NASA’s Mercury 7 Astronauts

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