<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_program" id="mwzg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Venera program">Venera program</a>: The Soviet Union launches the <i id="mwzw"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_3" id="mw0A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Venera 3">Venera 3</a></i> space probe toward <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus" id="mw0Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Venus">Venus</a>, which will be the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft" id="mw0g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Spacecraft">spacecraft</a> to reach the surface of another <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet" id="mw0w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Planet">planet</a>.