Gordon Cooper(astronaut who circled the globe 22 times in 34 hours and 20 minutes and became the first astronaut in a space flight of more than 24 hours. He was also the first astronaut to sleep in space, and he successfully carried out a beacon experiment that made him the first man to launch a satellite in space.)β
Loretta Lynn(American country music singer-songwriter
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Events
Dr. Benjamin Church investigated for espionageβ
Battle of Germantown resulted in a British victory, due to Washington’s disorganized troops and thick fogβ
The first U.S. Open golf championship was held in Newport, Rhode Islandβ
Pigeon Cher Ami’s message saved 194 U.S. soldiers during World War Iβ
The comic strip Dick Tracy, created by Chester Gould, made its debutβ
Ruth Allen won Long Island horseshoe championshipβ
Leave it to Beaver made its television debutβ
Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite, launched from the Soviet Unionβ
Russia’s Luna 3 was launched toward the Moon, where it later became the first vehicle to send back images of the Moon’s far sideβ
Barbara Walters joined Harry Reasoner at the anchor desk of ABCβs Evening News and became the first woman to anchor a network evening newscastβ
In Boston, Massachusetts, the bronze Mallard Family Sculpture, in honor of Robert McCloskey’s story Make Way for Ducklings, was dedicatedβ
Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty signed, 1991β
SpaceShipOne climbed into space for the second time in one week to claim a $10 million Ansari X Prizeβ
Astronomers Adam Riess, Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies on the expansion of the Universe. By studying exploding stars, they found that the rate of expansion is accelerating due to a force known as dark energy.β
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady threw his 500th career regular-season touchdown pass.β
Weather
Saxby’s Gale caused flooding all over New Englandβ