Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel’s attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon at Twin Falls, Idaho, fails after a parachute prematurely deploys on his “sky cycle.” About two-thirds the way up the ramp, the drogue parachute accidentally deployed creating enough drag that the skycycle couldn’t make it all the way across the canyon.
The skycycle turned on its […]

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NHL star Gordie Howe retires for the first time in 1973, and decides to play with his sons for Houston of the WHA.
He retired for good in 1980.
Howe led Detroit to four Stanley Cups and to first place in regular season play for seven consecutive years (1948-49 to 1955-56), a feat never […]

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On September 19, 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was not allowed to visit Disneyland during his 15 day visit to the United States. This visit was in reciprocation of Richard Nixon’s historic visit to the then USSR.
While in the USSR, Nixon participated with Krushchev in the ‘Kitchen Debates.
One of the reasons why Krushchev was […]

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The United States Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) is the head of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), concerned with the armed services and military matters.
The Secretary is appointed by the President with the approval of the Senate, and is a member of the Cabinet. The Secretary of Defense is sixth in the presidential line of […]

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Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system. Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free software and open source development; its underlying source code can be freely modified, used, and redistributed by anyone.
The Linux kernel was first released to the public on 17 September 1991, for the Intel x86 PC architecture. The kernel […]

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The Linux kernel was first released to the public on 17 September 1991, for the Intel x86 PC architecture.
The kernel was augmented with system utilities and libraries from the GNU project to create a usable operating system, which later led to an alternate term, GNU/Linux.
Linux is now packaged for different uses in Linux distributions, which […]

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On September 18 1959, Vanguard 3 was launched by a Vanguard rocket from the Eastern Test Range into a geocentric orbit.
The objectives of the flight were to measure the earth’s magnetic field, the solar X-ray radiation and its effects on the earth’s atmosphere, and the near-earth micrometeoroid environment.
Instrumentation included a proton magnetometer, X-ray ionization chambers, […]

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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (Dag Hammarskjöld(July 29, 1905 – September 18, 1961) was a Swedish diplomat and the second Secretary-General of the United Nations.
He served from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961 under mysterious circumstances. The exact cause of his death has never been conclusively determined.

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Joseph William Kittinger II (born July 27, 1928) is a former pilot and career military officer in the United States Air Force.
He is most famous for his participation in Project Man High and Project Excelsior and also, as being the first man to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a gas balloon.
The […]

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In the early morning hours of September 18, 1970, Jimi Hendrix was found dead in his basement flat of the Samarkand Hotel in London. Hendrix died amid circumstances which have never been fully explained.
Jimi Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Hendrix helped pioneer the technique of guitar feedback with overdriven amplifiers and is […]

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