•     1829 The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
  •     1914 World’s 1st airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins
  •     1946 1st US rocket to leave the Earth’s atmosphere (50 miles up)
  •     1952 Dutch DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44
  •     1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to ArthurSchawlow & Charles Townes
  •     1975 A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes dangerous lowering of cooling water levels.
  •     1981 Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6
  •     1982 3rd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 3 launched
  •     1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA F-10
  •     1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands
  •     1996 STS 76 (Atlantis 16), launches into orbit