TODAY IN HISTORY!

[Sky King]

My favorite American John Glenn who learned to fly in the same make, model & year as I did but was my favorite long before. Glad he got to go into space when old.

1962​

​ ​ John Glenn becomes first American to orbit Earth​

​ ​ From Cape Canaveral, Florida, John Herschel Glenn Jr. is successfully launched into space aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft on the first orbital flight by an American astronaut. Glenn, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps, was among the seven men chosen by the National Aeronautics​

​ ​ 1792​

​ ​ Postal Service Act regulates United States Post Office Department​

​ ​ 1985​

​ ​ Ireland allows sale of contraceptives​

​ ​ 1942​

​ ​ Pilot Edward O’Hare becomes first American WWII flying ace, his dad was Capones lawyer & Chicago airport was named after Ed O"Hare​

 

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1965​

Malcolm X assassinated​

February 21, 1965: In New York City, Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights. He was 39. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925,​

1848​

Karl Marx publishes Communist Manifesto​

1948​

NASCAR founded​

 

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1980​

U.S. hockey team beats the Soviets in the “Miracle on Ice”​

In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, on February 22, 1980, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time defending gold-medal winning Soviet team at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York.​

1819​

The U.S. acquires Spanish Florida​

1851​

San Francisco vigilantes take the law into their own hands​

2006​

Gang commits largest robbery in British history​

2014​

‘El Chapo,’ the world’s most-wanted drug kingpin, is captured in Mexico​

1978​

Navstar 1, the world’s first operational GPS satellite, launches​

1959​

Lee Petty wins first Daytona 500​

1969​

Barbara Jo Rubin becomes first female jockey to win a U.S. thoroughbred race​