2013 Event After completing rescue missions for survivors of the 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck, it is determined 360 people perished 2012 Event U.S. Presidential candiate Mitt Romney says President Barack Obama's reaction to the attacks on U.S. missions in Benghazi, Cairo and other U.S. embassy's was to 'sympathize' with the assailants; the President claimed the attacks were the result of protests to a movie released on YouTube months before that mocked Mohammed 2004 Death William H. Pickering, rocket scientist, manager of the Mariner missions to Venus and Mars in the 1960s, dies at 93 1988 Event NASA unviels plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars 1963 Event 2 Russian space missions return to Earth 1954 Event Ted Williams fractures collarbone in 1st game of spring training after flying 39 combat missions without injury in Korean War 1890 Event Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in missions 1784 Event John Carroll appointed supervisor of U.S. Catholic Missions
