MARCH 14
1995:U.S. astronaut Norman Thagard is the first American to travel aboard a Russian rocket, lifting off on a Soyuz spacecraft with two cosmonauts, bound for a 115-day mission at the Mir space station.
1927: Elsie Eaves becomes the first woman elected as a full member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Seventy-six years later, Patricia D. Galloway will become the first female president of the ASCE.
1964: A jury in Dallas sentences Jack Ruby to death for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Ruby will die of lung cancer in a Dallas hospital in January 1967 while awaiting a new trial; the original verdict was overturned by the Texas Court of Appeals.
1927: Elsie Eaves becomes the first woman elected as a full member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Seventy-six years later, Patricia D. Galloway will become the first female president of the ASCE.
1964: A jury in Dallas sentences Jack Ruby to death for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy. Ruby will die of lung cancer in a Dallas hospital in January 1967 while awaiting a new trial; the original verdict was overturned by the Texas Court of Appeals.
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