1994 Event Rockwell B-1B Lancers break 11 world speed records 1987 Event Rockwell International awarded contract to build a 5th shuttle 1978 Death Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84 1978 Event Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado 1972 Event Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle 1971 Death Rockwell Kens, U.S. artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88 1967 Death George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated 1964 Birthday Rockwell, Kennedy Gordy, born in Detroit, Michigan, rock vocalist, Someone Watching Me 1944 Birthday Martha Rockwell, born in Providence, Rhode Island, skier, Mount Washington 1916 Event Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting 1916 Event U.S. pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft 1894 Birthday Norman Rockwell, U.S., artist/illustrator, Sat Evening Post covers 1882 Birthday Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator, Canterbury Tales