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LUCKY LINDY HONORED ON THIS DAY IN 1927



Charles Lindbergh (left) was honored with a ticker-tape parade in
New York City
following his historic solo transatlantic flight.

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FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT IS 91 TODAY



Following the
attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941,
Bush decided to join the
US. Navy. He became the youngest
naval aviator at that time.



George Herbert Walker Bush

The 41st President of the United States also served as vice president,
congressman, ambassador, director of the CIA, and served in World
War II. His son, George W. Bush, served as the 43rd President of the
Untied States.



From left: George H.W. Bush with son George W. Bush.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST NEWS

todayinhistory

Camille bohannon ap 1
Camille Bohannon

ap tele 3

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A MOVIE ABOUT THE HUDSON RIVER HERO

 

NEW YORK (AP) – Clint Eastwood will follow his box-office sensation
"American Sniper" with a biopic of pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger
(above).

Warner Bros. announced Tuesday that Eastwood will direct and produce
the not-yet-titled drama as his next film. The film is to be adapted from
Sullenberger’s 2009 memoir, "Highest Duty: My Search for What Really
Matters," which chronicles his personal history before he landed a US 
Airways plane in the Hudson River in New York (seen above) in 2009. 


                   Director Clint Eastwood

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A QUICK RETURN ON THIS DAY IN 1969

The Apollo 10 crew from left, Eugene Cernan, John Young and Thomas
Stafford are photographed while at the Kennedy Space Center. In the
background is the Apollo 10 space vehicle on Launch Pad 39 B.

Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the  Apollo space program. Launched
on May 18, 1969, it was the F mission: a "dress rehearsal" for the first Moon landing, testing all of the components and procedures, just short of actually landing. The
Lunar Module came to within 8.4 nautical miles of the lunar surface, the point where
the powered descent to the lunar surface would begin. Its success enabled the first landing to be attempted on Apollo 11 in July, 1969.

According to the 2002 Guinness World Records, Apollo 10 set the record for the
highest speed attained by a manned vehicle at 24,791 mph during the return from
the Moon.

 

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