# Lest we forget ...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lest-we-forget/130900>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 4, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lest-we-forget/130900 "2002-10-04T21:59:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chagur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Chagur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chagur)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lest-we-forget/130900/1 "2002-10-04T21:59:18Z")

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On this day, October 4th, 1957, forty five years ago:

The U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik which in many ways had  
more of an effect on the world than the atomic bomb.

Just a reminder of what a supposedly backward,  
agrarian society accomplished.

Take care