APRIL 21
1997:Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and psychedelic psychologist Timothy Leary are among the two dozen people whose ashes are launched into space on a modified Pegasus rocket in the first known “space burial.”
1918: Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious German fighter pilot better known as the Red Baron, is shot down by the Allies over Vaux-sur-Somme, France, having downed a record 80 enemy aircraft during World War I.
1980: Rosie Ruiz crosses the finish line at the Boston Marathon after 2 hours 31 minutes 56 seconds, appearing to set the women’s record for the grueling race. Ruiz will be stripped of her victory eight days later, when race officials discover she entered the course only a mile from the finish line. Jacqueline Gareau of Canada is belatedly awarded first place.
1918: Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious German fighter pilot better known as the Red Baron, is shot down by the Allies over Vaux-sur-Somme, France, having downed a record 80 enemy aircraft during World War I.
1980: Rosie Ruiz crosses the finish line at the Boston Marathon after 2 hours 31 minutes 56 seconds, appearing to set the women’s record for the grueling race. Ruiz will be stripped of her victory eight days later, when race officials discover she entered the course only a mile from the finish line. Jacqueline Gareau of Canada is belatedly awarded first place.
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