2004 William H. Pickering, rocket scientist, manager of the Mariner missions to Venus and Mars in the '60s, dies at 93
1996 Arthur Rudolph, rocket Engineer, dies at 89
1994 Robert Hutton, [Winne], U.S. actor (Rocket), dies at 74
1992 India launches its Agni rocket
1991 Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million
1989 1st U.S. private commercial rocket makes suborbital test flight (NM)
1986 Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB
1984 Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island
1983 India entered space age launching SLV-3 rocket
1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico
1982 Conestoga 1, 1st private commercial rocket, makes suborbital flight
1982 Canada's Anik D1 Comsat launched by U.S. Delta rocket
1982 British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
1981 Satellites China 10 and 11 launched into Earth orbit by B-1 rocket
1980 China PR launch 1st intercontinental rocket
1980 Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50
1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph
1977 Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking
1976 Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency
1972 NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques
1969 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)
1966 Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy
1965 At 10:58 am PST burn up a nuclear rocket in Nevada
1963 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km
1963 Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record
1962 Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on U.S. Delta rocket)
1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifted off with an electronic mannequin
1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1961 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va
1961 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
1960 Rocket propelled USAAF research aircraft sets record at 2,150 MPH
1958 USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's
1958 Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex
1957 1st U.S. attempt to launch a satellite fails - Vanguard rocket blows up
1957 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals
1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1956 Milburn Apt, in X-2 rocket plane reaches 3370 kph, but, dies in crash
1956 Bell X-2 rocket plane sets world aircraft speed record of 3,050 kph
1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1955 Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal
1954 Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled
1954 Arthur Murray flies X-1A rocket plane to record 27,000 m
1954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
1953 Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
1953 Rik "The Rocket" Emmett, Toronto, rock vocalist, Triumph
1951 1st missle to intercept an airplane, White Sands, New Mexico
1951 U.S. viking rocket reaches 210 km height, record
1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
1949 Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1949 1st firing of a U.S. Viking rocket; reached 80 km
1949 WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
1949 V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
1948 U.S. rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height
1946 U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
1946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
1946 German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.S.R.
1946 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, New Mexico
1946 1st U.S. launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt
1946 1st U.S. rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1945 German rocket engineers begin work in U.S.
1945 Robert H Goddard, U.S., rocket pioneer, dies at 62
1945 Robert Goddard, Rocket pioneer, dies
1945 Maurice "Rocket" Richard becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals
1944 Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden flight
1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
1943 RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
1942 Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
1942 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport, Connecticut
1942 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1939 Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1939 Ernst Heinkel demonstrates 800-kph rocket plane to Hitler
1939 Heinkel He 176 rocket plane flies for 1st time, at Peenemunde
1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1938 Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon," premieres in New York City
1936 Henri "Rocket" Richard, NHL center, Montreal Canadiens
1936 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, New York
1935 Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
1933 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
1933 Soviet Union test GIRD-R1 rocket ("Object 09")
1932 Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program
1931 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail, Austria
1929 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1928 Friedrich Schmiedl attempted rocket mail in Austria (unsuccessful)
1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
1926 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters)
1921 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Montreal Canadien, MVP-1947
1920 Robert Hutton, Kingston, New York, actor, Torture Garden, Rocket
1914 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted, Dr. Robert Goddard
1912 Werner von Braun, born in Wirsitz, Germany, rocket expert, I Aim at the Stars
1906 Arthur Rudolph, rocket engineer
1892 Emory Parnell, St. Paul Minnesota, actress, Rocket Man, County Fair
1882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, Worcester Massachusetts, rocket pioneer
1870 J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done)
1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket and space research
1772 William Congreve, English officer, design fire rocket
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