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1984 Billy Sands, actor (Phil Silvers Show, McHale's Navy), dies at 73

1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, New Mexico

1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center from White Sands

1982 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM

1981 Bobby Sands, IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike

1981 Bobby Sands, Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strike

1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament

1981 Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike in Maze Prison

1973 Diana Sands, actress (Landlord, Raisin in the Sun), dies at 39

1967 Townsend Saunders, White Sands, New Mexico, freestyle wrestler, Silver Medals 1992, 1996 Olympics

1958 Julian Sands, actor, One Night Stand

1954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM

1951 1st missle to intercept an airplane, White Sands, New Mexico

1949 V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km

1946 U.S. V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

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

1944 Paul Sands, born in Los Angeles, California, comedian/actor, SCTV, Story Theater, St. Elsewhere

1943 Roger Donaldson, director, Cocktail, Cadillac Man, White Sands

1937 Tommy Sands, born in Chicago, Illinois, singer and actor, Teenage Rock, Dream With Me

1934 Diana Sands, New York City, actress, Raisin in the Sun, Doctor's Wife

1933 Sheldon Adelson, born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, property developer, billionaire businessman, investing in gambling and leisure businesses, CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., Forbes' third riches person in the U.S. in 2008

1933 White Sands National Monument, New Mexico established

1926 Richard Jaeckel, New York, actor, 3:10 to Yuma, Sands of Iwo Jima

1921 John Agar, Chicago, actor, Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima

1864 Marie Tempest, Marie Susan Etherington, actress, Yellow Sands

1812 Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander Union Navy

1795 Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander Union Navy


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