Above are two Italian posters for the 1973 sexploitation action flick Ginger il simbolo del sesso con licenza… d’amare, a very long title for something made in English as Girls Are for Loving. It’s basically a spy movie, and the Italian translates as, “Ginger the symbol of sex with license… to love.” Hah hah, those horny Italian marketing guys. Well, they’re horny for a reason. The main character of undercover operative Ginger MacCallister is played by the uniquely uninhibited Cheri Caffaro. There’s no Italian release date known, which is amazing because we bet everyone who saw this movie remembered it for a very long time.
1961—Soviets Launch Venus Probe
The U.S.S.R. launches the spacecraft Venera 1, equipped with scientific instruments to measure solar wind, micrometeorites, and cosmic radiation, towards planet Venus. The craft is the first modern planetary probe. Among its many achievements, it confirms the presence of solar wind in deep space, but overheats due to the failure of a sensor before its Venus mission is completed.