On June 8, 1948, a hand-built aluminum prototype labeled “No. 1″ became
the first vehicle to bear the name of one of the world’s leading luxury car
manufacturers: Porsche.
The Austrian automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche debuted his
first design at the World’s Fair in Paris in 1900. The electric vehicle
set several Austrian land-speed records, reaching more than 35 mph
and earning international acclaim for the young engineer.
Ferdinand Porsche
(September 3, 1875 – January 30, 1951)
(AP) – Clarence Williams III, who played the cool undercover cop
Linc Hayes on the counterculture series “The Mod Squad” and
Prince’s father in “Purple Rain,” has died.
His manager Allan Mindel said Williams died Friday at his home
in Los Angeles after a battle with colon cancer.
(1939 – 2021)
Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968)
On June 5, 1968, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy was
mortally wounded shortly after midnight at the Ambassador Hotel
in Los Angeles. Earlier that evening, the 42-year-old junior senator from
New York was declared the winner in the South Dakota and
California 1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries during
the 1968 United States presidential election. He was pronounced
dead at 1:44 a.m. PDT on June 6, about 26 hours after he had been
shot.
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On June 3, 1965, 120 miles above the Earth, Major Edward H. White
II opened the hatch of the Gemini 4 and stepped out of the capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to walk in space (above). He
was attached to the craft by a 25-foot tether and controlling his movements with a hand-held oxygen jet-propulsion gun, White
remained outside the capsule for just over 20 minutes. As a space
walker,
White had been preceded by Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov,
who on March 18, 1965, was the first man ever to walk in space.
Edward Higgins White II
(November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967)
White died on January 27, 1967, alongside astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee in a fire during pre-launch testing
for Apollo 1 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. He was awarded the
NASA Distinguished Service Medal for his flight in Gemini 4
and posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of
Honor
