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Feb 20th, 1962, “…Two,One,zero. Roger, The clock is operating. We are under way.”, astronaut John Glenn, becomes the first American to (1)___ the earth, lifting off from the Mercury space capsule , 'Friendship 7'.

(2) ______________________________________________________________ Warwick Rhode Island, ______________________________________________________________

1998, “when I sat down the ice I had feeling like, you know, I knew the Olympics is about I had that feeling of just like pure joy “, American Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold (3) ___ in the Winter Olympics, when the 15 year-old wins the Lady’s figure skating title in Nagano , Japan.

And 1999,film critic Gene Siskel who (4) ___with fellow critic Roger Ebert on TV to give movies on thumbs-up or thumbs-down, dies at the age of 53.