FEBRUARY 3
1863:Working as a journalist in Virginia City, Nev., Samuel Clemens uses the pen name “Mark Twain” for the first time to sign a travel account published in the Territorial Enterprise newspaper.
1959: Rock ‘n’ roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed along with pilot Roger Peterson when their chartered plane crashes minutes after takeoff near Clear Lake, Iowa. The young rock stars (Holly was 22, Valens 17, and Richardson 28) will be immortalized in Don McLean’s 1972 hit “American Pie,” which fittingly refers to this date as “the day the music died.”
1995: U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot a NASA space shuttle mission when she lifts off aboard Discovery. In July 1999, Collins will also become the first female space shuttle commander.
1959: Rock ‘n’ roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed along with pilot Roger Peterson when their chartered plane crashes minutes after takeoff near Clear Lake, Iowa. The young rock stars (Holly was 22, Valens 17, and Richardson 28) will be immortalized in Don McLean’s 1972 hit “American Pie,” which fittingly refers to this date as “the day the music died.”
1995: U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot a NASA space shuttle mission when she lifts off aboard Discovery. In July 1999, Collins will also become the first female space shuttle commander.
No comments:
Post a Comment