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Today in History: 1962 – Mariner program : * Mariner 1 * spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed. Mariner 1, built to conduct the first American planetary flyby of Venus, was the first spacecraft of NASA’s interplanetary Mariner program. The spacecraft carried a suite of experiments to determine the temperature of Venus as well to measure magnetic fields and charged particles near the planet and in interplanetary space. Mariner 1 was launched by an Atlas-Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral’s Pad 12 on 22 July 1962. Shortly after takeoff, errors in communication between the rocket and its ground-based guidance systems caused the rocket to veer off course, and it had to be destroyed by range safety.
Read all about it here Gunfight at the O.K. Corral - Wikipedia .
Also of interest on July 22nd
· 1933 – Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.
· 1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.
· 1990 – Greg LeMond , an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond’s second consecutive Tour de France victory.
· 1992 – Near Medellín , Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar escapes from his luxury prison fearing extradition to the United States.
· 1997 – The second Blue Water Bridge opens between Port Huron, Michigan and Sarnia, Ontario .
· 2019 – Chandrayaan 2 , the second lunar exploration mission developed by Indian Space Research Organisation after Chandrayaan 1 is launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in a GSLV Mark III M1. It consists of a lunar orbiter, and also included the Vikram lander , and the Pragyan lunar rover.
Births on This Day
· 1948 – S. E. Hinton , American author
· 1955 – Willem Dafoe , American actor
· 1961 – Keith Sweat , American singer-songwriter and producer
· 1964 – Will Calhoun , American rock drummer
· 1964 – John Leguizamo , Colombian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
· 1964 – David Spade , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
· 1972 – Colin Ferguson , Canadian actor, director, and producer
· 1973 – Brian Chippendale , American singer and drummer
· 1973 – Rufus Wainwright , American-Canadian singer-songwriter
· 1989 – Keegan Allen , American actor, photographer and musician
· 1992 – Selena Gomez , American singer and actress
· 1994 – Jaz Sinclair , American film and television actress
Deaths on This Day
· 1967 – Carl Sandburg , American poet and historian (b. 1878)
· 1996 – Rob Collins , English keyboard player (b. 1956)
· 2008 – Estelle Getty , American actress (b. 1923)
· 2013 – Dennis Farina , American policeman and actor (b. 1944)
· 2018 – Frank Havens , American canoeist (b. 1924)
Holidays Today
· National Press Day ( Azerbaijan )
· Pi Approximation Day , *see also March 14 *
· Ratcatcher’s Day
· Revolution Day (The Gambia)
· Sarawak Self-government Day ( Sarawak , Malaysia )
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375 – Comedy circuit – Luke Surl Comics
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In case you missed yesterdays Era ending Spark by @jontydda , you can find it here .
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