2013 Event NASA scientists achieve a first in laser communication when they successfully beam a picture of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a spacecraft orbiting the Moon 1997 Death Beam Dai, head of South Vietnam (1949-55), dies 1996 Event Katie Beam, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 35th Miss Teenage America 1994 Event Last steel beam is placed on Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 1991 Event 55 ton concrete beam falls in Montreal's Olympic Stadium 1981 Event CERN achieves 1st proton-antiproton beam collision (570 GeV) 1966 Birthday Roberto Beam, soccer player, Vitesse/MVV 1964 Death H[enry] Beam Piper, U.S., sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60 1962 Event Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
