HISTORICAL EVENTS
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1958 – Charles Starkweather (19) and his 14 year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, kill 10 people in the American heartland.
1964 – Soviets shoot down U.S. jet during Cold War.
1986 – Seven American astronauts, including 37 year-old school teacher Christa McAuliffe, were killed when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after launch . President Reagan's special commission to investigate the tragedy included Nobel Laureate physicist Richard Feynman and concluded that low temperatures caused the failure of an O-ring seal in one of the solid fuel rockets.
I was living in Norway at the time and had not heard about the event when announced on the Norwegian news. The next morning at work I was shocked to hear one of my Norwegian colleagues inform me of the fact and thought he was "joking".
FAMOUS BIRTHS
1964 – Soviets shoot down U.S. jet during Cold War.
1986 – Seven American astronauts, including 37 year-old school teacher Christa McAuliffe, were killed when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after launch . President Reagan's special commission to investigate the tragedy included Nobel Laureate physicist Richard Feynman and concluded that low temperatures caused the failure of an O-ring seal in one of the solid fuel rockets.
I was living in Norway at the time and had not heard about the event when announced on the Norwegian news. The next morning at work I was shocked to hear one of my Norwegian colleagues inform me of the fact and thought he was "joking".
FAMOUS BIRTHS
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1825 – George Edward Pickett, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1875. Famous for his participation at the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War.
FAMOUS DEATHS
814 – Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71. He was crowned in 774 on the site of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome.
1547 – Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47), dies at 55.
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2004 – Captain Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy (b. 1927). His ship, the USS Pueblo, was famously captured by North Korea on January 23, 1968.
2004 – Captain Lloyd M. Bucher, U.S. Navy (b. 1927). His ship, the USS Pueblo, was famously captured by North Korea on January 23, 1968.
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