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==Events==
* ''None yet''[[Astronomy|Astronomer]] Fred Hoyle coins the term "Big Bang" during a radio broadcast.
* Nereid, a [[moon]] of [[Neptune]], is discovered by Gerard Kuiper. * Albert II, a rhesus monkey, becomes the first primate to '''enter''' space. <br> (''He is killed on impact at return.'') {{| class="wikitable" style="width:20%"! colspan="3" | [[Timeline]] |-| <center>[[1948]] || <center>[[1949]] || <center>[[1950]] |- [[category:timeline nav}}]]