Peace Officer Memorial Day
100th birth anniversary of mountaineer Tenzing Norgay (1914-83), co-conqueror of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953.
Birth anniversary of astronomer, mathematician and scientist Nicolas Louis De Lacaille (1713-62). He mapped nearly 10,000 stars in the Southern Hemisphere from 1750-54 and established a catalog system for the stars he observed.
Birth anniversary of L. Frank Baum, creator of the World of Oz (1856-1919).
Birth anniversaries of Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Joseph Cotton (1905-94), Pierre Curie (1859-1906)
Happy Birthday! Madeleine Albright, Trini Lopez, Kathleen Sebelius
1862 - The U.S. Congress created the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
1911 - The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil Company, ruling it was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1930 - Ellen Church became the first female flight attendant.
1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1963 - The last Project Mercury space flight was launched.
1970 - U.S. President Nixon appointed America's first two female generals.
1972 - Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot.
1988 - The Soviet Union began their withdrawal of its 115,000 troops from Afghanistan. Soviet forces had been there for more than eight years.
1997 - The Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off on a mission to deliver urgently needed repair equipment and a fresh American astronaut to Russia's orbiting Mir station.
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