On this day: July 17

POSTED: 11:56 AM PDT Jul 16, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Jul 16, 2012 

Air conditioning is born, the "happiest place on Earth" opens up and the Beatles get animated, all on this day.

OTD July 17 - Apollo Soyuez
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NASA

1975: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.

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