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100 years anniversary | ||||
21 Jun 1924 | Wally Fawkes: Cartoonist / jazz clarinettist | |||
21 Jun 1924 | NCRV, Dutch Christian Radio Society, forms | |||
21 Jun 1924 | Ezzatolah Entezami, Iranian actor | |||
21 Jun 1924 | Wally Fawkes, Canadian-English clarinet player and cartoonist | |||
21 Jun 1924 | Pontus Hultén, Swedish art collector (d. 2006) | |||
21 Jun 1924 | Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst and academic (d. 2012) | |||
21 Jun 1924 | Max McNab, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2007) | |||
75 years anniversary | ||||
21 Jun 1949 | Jim Bacchus: (Rep-D-Florida) | |||
21 Jun 1949 | John Agard, Guyanese-English author | |||
21 Jun 1949 | Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth, Scottish lawyer and judge | |||
21 Jun 1949 | birth Greg Munford, Strawberry Alarm Clock, (1967 US No.1 single 'Incense And Peppermints'). | |||
21 Jun 1949 | H L Giclas discovers asteroid #1886 Lowell | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
21 Jun 1974 | Rob Kelly: Safety (New Orleans Saints) | |||
21 Jun 1974 | Natasha Desborough, English radio host, producer, and author | |||
21 Jun 1974 | Neely Jenkins, American bass player (Park Ave. and Tilly and the Wall) | |||
21 Jun 1974 | Rob Kelly, American football player | |||
21 Jun 1974 | Craig Lowndes, Australian race car driver | |||
21 Jun 1974 | Eero Palm, Estonian architect | |||
21 Jun 1974 | Flavio Roma, Italian footballer | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
21 Jun 1999 | Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973) | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
21 Jun 2004 | Leonel Brizola, Brazilian engineer and politician, Governor of Rio de Janeiro (b. 1922) | |||
21 Jun 2004 | SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. | |||
21 Jun 2004 |
First civilian space pilot In 2004, Mike Melvill became the first civilian to pilot a craft into space. By flying to 100-km (62 miles) in altitude, SpaceShipOne left the Earth's atmosphere in a sub-orbital space flight. It was built by Burt Rutan and financed by Paul Allen. It began by riding piggy-back on its launcher White Knight to 46,000-ft (13.8-km) Then SpaceShipOne separated, glided briefly and fired its rocket for 80-sec to continue its trip to the edge of space. For re-entry, the ship's wings could swing into a new configuration for a 20-min glide back down to Mojave Airport, California. The 90-min flight ended with a safe landing on the desert airport runway. The rocket engine fuel was a solid rubber propellant with liquid nitrous oxide. |
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21 Jun 2004
SpaceShipOne |
SpaceShipOne (space exploration) SpaceShipOne, the first civilian space ship is launched in California, reaching an altitude of 100 km (62 mi), just passing the edge of space. |
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15 years anniversary | ||||
21 Jun 2009 | Greenland assumes self-rule. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
21 Jun 2014 | Gerry Conlon, Northern Irish exoneree, author and activist (b. 1954) | |||
21 Jun 2014 | Yozo Ishikawa, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Defense (b. 1925) | |||
21 Jun 2014 | Walter Kieber, Austrian-Liechtenstein politician, 7th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (b. 1931) | |||
21 Jun 2014 | Wong Ho Leng, Malaysian lawyer and politician (b. 1959) |