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SPLASH DOWN ON THIS DAY IN 1969

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President Nixon visits the Apollo 11 crew in quarantine after splash down

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AVIATOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1897

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   Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937)

Earhart was a noted aviation pioneer and the first woman to receive the U.S. 
Distinguished Flying Cross.

During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937
in a Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central
Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. She was declared legally dead on 
January 5, 1939.

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Amelia Earhart waves from her Electra before taking off from Los Angeles, Ca. 
on March 10, 1937

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FIRST FEMALE IN SPACE HAS DIED AT 61

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Astronaut Sally Ride

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           Sally Kristen Ride
(May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012)

DEVELOPING:(FOX) – Sally Ride, America’s first female astronaut, has
died after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She joined NASA
in 1978, and in 1983 became the first woman, and then-youngest at 32,
to enter space. In 1987 she left NASA to work at Stanford University’s
Center for International Security and Arms Control.

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TODAY IN HISTORY ~

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The Frisbie Baking Company’s pie pans spurred the name of the
popular flying toy, the Frisbee

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GEORGE MCGOVERN IS 90 TODAY

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George Stanley McGovern is a former U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator,
and the Democratic Party nominee in the 1972 presidential election.

He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and as a
B-24 Liberator pilot flew 35 missions over German-occupied Europe. He
was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for making a hazardous
emergency landing of his damaged plane and saving his crew.

After the war, McGovern obtained degrees from Dakota Wesleyan University 
and Northwestern University, earning a Ph.D, becoming a history professor. 
 

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Lieutenant McGovern in front of his B-24, the Dakota Queen.

 

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President John F. Kennedy and George McGovern in 1961

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