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Today in History, Nov. 5

The planetarium was the first to be built in the Soviet Union. Stone_Cold_Crazy

Eighty-four years ago today, on Nov. 5, 1929, the first planetarium opened up in Moscow. The planetarium was only the 30th to be built worldwide, and this sparked massive interest from the public with the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky even writing a short poem for the occasion.

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