The American space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the moon’s surface on this day in 1964. It was the first space probe of the United States to successfully transmit close images of the lunar surface backto Earth. It was also the first completely successful flight of the Ranger program.
(NOTE) Holly’s mother and his widow both learned he had died from the news. Ever since, police departments have made it a policy not to release a victim’s name until their family has been notified.
A 1947 Beechcraft Bonanza (Model 35), similar to the aircraft that crashed.
Gull Avenue, Crash site is located west of intersection of 315th Street and Gull Avenue., Clear Lake, IA.
Former KGW radio D.J. Red Robinson (left) and Buddy Holly.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Nazi Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.
The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended with the Treaty of Paris on this day in 1783.
Treaty of Paris original document.
End of the hostage crisis on this day in 2004.
The NASA spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars on this day in 1976. The unmanned spacecraft took the first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface.
Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970)
Vince Lombardi died in Washington, D.C. of cancer on Thursday morning, September 3, 1970. He was 57.
Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner–Mars 1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode. It was designed to conduct close up scientific observations of Mars and to transmit these observations to Earth. Mariner 4 performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface. On December 21, 1967 communications with Mariner 4 were terminated.