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On this day in 1934 – May 30th – cosmonaut Alexi Leonov was was born in Listvyanka, West Siberian Krai, Russian SFSR.

As a cosmonaut, among his accomplishments was his being the first person to carry out a spacewalk. Leonov was also a writer and an accomplished artist.


Mona Evans
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