MIKE GRACIA

Apollo 1 capsule after the tragic fire which killed three astronauts.

General George Washington at Valley Forge.

CAMILLE
BOHANNON

Robert Anthony Plant is 72 today.

Plant has had a successful singing career spanning over
50 years. In 2008, Rolling Stone editors ranked him
number 15 on their list of the 100 best singers of all
time. In 2011, Rolling Stone readers ranked Plant the
greatest of all lead singers. In 2006, Hit Parader
magazine named Plant the “Greatest Metal Vocalist
of All Time”. In 2009, Plant was also voted “the greatest
voice in rock” in a poll conducted by Planed Rock.

TIM MAGUIRE

Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on the moon.

On June 3, 1965, 120 miles above the Earth, Major Edward H. White II opens
the hatch of the Gemini 4 and steps out of the capsule, becoming the first
American astronaut to walk in space.