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- - - - Madeleine L’Engle was born on November 19, 1918, in New York, New York.
        
        She wrote her first book in 1945, The Small Rain, after that she started writing more books including And Both Were Young (1949), The Moon By Night (1963), and A Ring of Endless Light (1980).
        
        Most of her books were about good against evil while interweaving the elements of fantasy and philosophy.
        
        Her most famous book A Wrinkle In Time follows Meg Murry and her brother Charles Wallace on a journey to find their lost father, a scientist who studying time travel.
        
        She also won many other awards like American Book Award for A Swiftly Tilting Planet. In 1981 A Ring of Endless Light was named a Newbery Honor Book. She won the Regina Medal in 1984.
        
        Sadly, Madeleine L’Engle died on September 6, 2007, in Litchfield, Connecticut.
- - - - The Cold War was solidified by 1947-1948 when the U.S. aid provided under the Marshall Plan to western Europe had brought those countries under American influence and the Soviets had installed openly communist regimes in eastern Europe.
        
        The United States and its European allies formed NATO, a unified military command to resist the Soviet presence in Europe 1949.
        
        The Soviets exploded their first atomic warhead 1949, and thus ending the American monopoly on the atomic bomb.
        
        The Chinese communists came to power in mainland China 1940 and the Soviet-supported communist government of North Korea invaded U.S. supported South Korea in 1950.
        
        The Cold War ended in 1991.
- - - - Soviet Union made missiles that could hit much of the eastern United States within a few minutes if launched from Cuba.
        
        In 1962 the U.S. found out that the Soviet Union was making missile shipments to Cuba.
        
        As the two superpowers hovered close to the brink of a nuclear war, messages were exchanged.
        
        Finally in October 28 Khrushchev informed Kennedy (president-U.S.) that the missile sites would be halted and the missiles in Cuba will be returned to the Soviet Union.
        
        In return, Kennedy committed the United States never to invade Cuba, he also secretly promised to withdraw the nuclear-armed missiles that the United States had stationed in Turkey in previous years.
        
        The CMC ended by late October (lasted about 13 days).
- - - - Yury Gagarin orbited Earth on the Vostok spacecraft.
        
        Less than ten years later on July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first man to travel to the moon.
        
        After that, many crews and people from all over the world now investigate the reaches of space beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.