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1997 Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map

1982 NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth

1978 U.S. launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus

1965 "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson

1943 FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy

1942 Adm Nimitz' B-17 finding Guadalcanal using National Geographic map

1926 Weather map televised for 1st time

1907 Phyllis Pearsall-Gross, British Geographer, A to Z Map Company

1850 Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53

1813 John C Fremont, [Pathfinder], map maker/explorer, western U.S., /Gov, AZ

1797 Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer, constructed 1st Moon map



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