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Events
- 1888 – The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C..
- 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
- 1967 – The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.