1962
America’s first space hero, John Glenn, made space history!
Glenn became the first American to orbited the world when he did it three times! He made it happen in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
1987
A bomb exploded in a computer store in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The blast was blamed on the Unabomber.
1998
Tara Lipinski, at age 15, became the youngest gold medalist in winter Olympics history!
She won the ladies’ figure skating title at Nagano, Japan.
and then lastly…
So tragic.
2003
In West Warwick, RI, 99 people were killed when fire destroyed the nightclub The Station.
The fire started with sparks from a pyrotechnic display being used by Great White.
Ty Longley, guitarist for Great White, was one of the victims in the fire.
-Tyler Jackson
