On this day: October 15

POSTED: 09:59 PM PDT Oct 11, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Oct 14, 2012 

Napoleon goes into exile, "I Love Lucy" debuts, vice-presidential candidates debate for the first time, Wayne Gretzky sets the NHL's points record, and the nation meets "Balloon Boy" and his family, all on this day.

OTD October 15 - Shenzhou 5
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2003: China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission. China becomes the third country in the world to have independent human spaceflight capability after the Soviet Union (later, Russia) and the United States.

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