1953
Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound!
She piloted an F-86 Sabrejet over California at an average speed of 652.337 miles-per-hour.
1980
Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state.
The volcanic blast was five hundred times more powerful than the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. Steam and ash erupted more than eleven miles into the atmosphere and darkened skies in a 160-mile radius. Sixty people were dead, nearly $3 billion dollars worth of damage occurred.
1999
The Backstreet Boys released their third album Millennium.
1998
The U.S. federal government and 20 states filed a sweeping antitrust case against Microsoft Corp.
They accused the computer software company had a “choke hold” on competitors by controlling 90% of the software market.
2014
Russian President Putin signed a bill to absorb Crimea into the Russian Federation.
and then lastly…
Happy 63rd Birthday to The King!
George Strait was born in 1952 in Poteet, Texas!
-Tyler Jackson
