Archive for February 13th, 2013
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NOTED TEST PILOT IS 90 TODAY!
Chuck Yeager and his Bell X-1 experimental supersonic plane, named
after his wife.
Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a retired major general in the
United States Air Force and former test pilot. He was the first pilot
to travel faster than sound in 1947.
Yeager is depicted by actor Sam Shepard in the 1983 film "The Right Stuff".
NEWS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
COMIC STRIP DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1937
Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is a long-
run comic strip created by Harold Foster in 1937. The strip currently appears
weekly in more than 300 newspapers, according to its to its distributor, King Features Syndicate.
PETER TORK IS 71 TODAY
Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) is best known as the
keyboardist and bass guitarist of The Monkees.
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