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TODAY IN HISTORY

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posted by Bob Karm in CRIME,HISTORY,SPACE,WAR and have No Comments

NOTED TEST PILOT IS 90 TODAY!

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Chuck Yeager and his Bell X-1 experimental supersonic plane, named
after his wife.

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Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a retired major general in the
United States Air Force and former test pilot. He was the first pilot
to travel
faster than sound in 1947.

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Yeager is depicted by actor Sam Shepard in the 1983 film  "The Right Stuff".

posted by Bob Karm in AIRCRAFT,Aviation,BIRTHDAY,CURRENT EVENTS,HISTORY,MILITARY,MOVIES,SPACE,THEN AND NOW and have No Comments

NEWS THAT MADE HISTORY ON THIS DAY!

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2009

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              Eddie Cochran

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NEWS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

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                 Space Shuttle Columbia memorial at Arlington Cemetery

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NEWS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

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