1960: A short message by President Dwight D. Eisenhower is transmitted to and from Echo 1, making it the first working communications satellite.
1953: The Soviet Union explodes the first deliverable hydrogen bomb, causing worry in the U.S., since the American model is not yet deliverable.
1985: A Boeing 747 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people in the worst one-plane disaster to date .
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