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On this day for the United States
Events
1777 – The
United States Congress passes a resolution that the services of
Marquis de Lafayette "be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connexions, he have the rank and commission of major–general of the
United States ."
1790 – First
U.S.
patent is issued; granted to inventor
Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
1930 – The
radio mystery program
The Shadow is aired for the first time.
1940 – A
doodlebug train in
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio collides with a multi–car freight train heading the opposite way, killing 43 people.
1945 –
John K. Giles attempts to escape from
Alcatraz prison.
1948 – At Idlewild Field in
New York ,
New York International Airport (later renamed
John F. Kennedy International Airport ) is dedicated.
1961 – At
Fenway Park in
Boston, Massachusetts , the first
All-Star Game tie in major league
baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning because of rain.
1964 –
Ranger program :
Ranger 7 sends back the first close–up photographs of the
moon , with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth–bound
telescopes .
1971 –
Apollo program :
Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a
lunar rover .
1972 –
Northeast Airlines flies its last flight before being integrated into
Delta Air Lines the next day.
1973 – A
Delta Air Lines jetliner crashes while landing in fog at
Logan Airport ,
Boston, Massachusetts killing 89.
1975 – In
Detroit, Michigan ,
Teamsters Union
president
Jimmy Hoffa is reported missing.
1976 –
Viking program :
Viking 1 –
NASA releases the famous
Face on Mars photo.
1981 – 42–day strike of
Major League Baseball ends in the
United States .
1999 –
Discovery Program :
Lunar Prospector –
NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the
Moon , thus ending its mission to detect frozen
water on the moon's surface.
2006 –
Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother
Raúl Castro . This leads to a celebration in
Little Havana [La Pequeña Habana in Spanish],
Miami ,
Florida , where many
Cuban Americans participated.