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1859:The modern petroleum industry is born when Seneca Oil Company's Col. Edwin Drake and William Smith drill a viable oil well south of Titusville, Pa., prompting the Pennsylvania oil rush.
1979: British Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, two of his family members and a local boy are killed by a bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army aboard Mountbatten's fishing boat near County Sligo, Ireland.
1984: President Ronald Reagan announces the Teacher in Space Project, directing NASA to select a teacher as the first citizen passenger in the history of the space program. New Hampshire social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe will be selected from the 11,000 educators who apply, but will die in the space shuttle Challenger disaster on Jan. 28, 1986.
1979: British Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, two of his family members and a local boy are killed by a bomb planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army aboard Mountbatten's fishing boat near County Sligo, Ireland.
1984: President Ronald Reagan announces the Teacher in Space Project, directing NASA to select a teacher as the first citizen passenger in the history of the space program. New Hampshire social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe will be selected from the 11,000 educators who apply, but will die in the space shuttle Challenger disaster on Jan. 28, 1986.
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