• 1778 – Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
• 1867 – Death Date of Elias Howe, American engineer, invented the sewing
machine (Birth On 1819)
• 1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear
weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
• 1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape
Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour
flight.
• 1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
(Mission STS-51-J).
• 2007 – Death Date Of M. N. Vijayan, Indian journalist, author,
and academic (Birth On 1930)
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