From left: Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, Crew Commander Walter M. 
Schirra, and Lunar Module Pilot R. Walter Cunningham. 
.

Apollo 7 splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean. The spacecraft had
orbited the Earth 163 times.

Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is 86 today and continues to perform
live.

1957

March, 1922

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton

(October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966)

Neptune, the 8th planet from the sun

 

German observatory astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle (above) 
discovered the planet Neptune. He was assisted by Urbain Jean
Joseph Le Verrier (below) a French mathematician who specialized
in celestial mechanics. Neptune was named by Le Verrier after the
Roman mythological god of the sea.

Urbain Le Verrier

London (AP) – It was scooped up from the sea after 98 years, and now officials
say a message in a bottle discovered in Scotland has set a world record.

Fisherman Andrew Leaper found the bottle– released in 1914 — in his nets
in April while sailing east of the Shetland Islands, which lie off Scotland’s
northern coast.

Guinness World Records confirmed Thursday the find is the oldest message
in a bottle ever recovered, beating a previous record by five years.

It was released in a batch of 1,890 bottles in a government experiment to map
the undercurrents of the seas around Scotland.

Inside each bottle, a postcard asks the finder to record details of the discovery
and promises a reward of a sixpence. Unfortunately for Leaper, the coin no
longer exists.

Andrew Leaper