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, Oly-sil-92, 96
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 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, died in 1883
1795 Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander Union Navy, died in 1883
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