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SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with sub-orbital spaceflight capability at speeds of up to 900 m/s (3,000 ft/s), using a hybrid rocket motor. |
546 – Gothic War (535-554): The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
1777 – France recognizes independence of English colonies in America
1777 – George Washington’s army returns to Valley Forge Pennsylvania
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1791 – NYC traffic regulation creates first 1-way street
1821 – Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
1862 – General Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
1900 – New Ellis Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
1903 – At 10:35 AM, first sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
1914 – Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
1924 – First US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY
1935 – First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
1957 – US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
1965 – David Levy begins his search for comets
1970 – Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
1975 – Lynette Fromme sentenced to life for attempt on Preident Ford’s life
1979 – Budweiser rocket car reaches 739mph (record for wheeled vehicle)
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2007 – Republic of Lakotah asserts independence from the United States
2012 – NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field
1554 – Ernest of Bavaria, Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1612)
1619 – Prince Rupert of the Rhine (d. 1682)
1797 – Joseph Henry, American physicist and engineer (d. 1878)
1887 – Josef Lada, Czech painter and illustrator (d. 1957)
1894 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
1904 – Paul Cadmus, American painter and illustrator (d. 1999)
1929 – William Safire, American journalist and author (d. 2009)
1936 – Pope Francis
1942 – Paul Butterfield, American singer and harmonica player (d. 1987)
Deaths
779 – Sturm, abbot of Fulda
1847 – Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma (b. 1791)
1933 – 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
2004 – Tom Wesselmann, American painter and sculptor (b. 1931)
2005 – Jack Anderson, American journalist and author (b. 1922)
2012 – Daniel Inouye, American captain and politician (b. 1924)
2016 – Henry Heimlich, American doctor (b. 1920)