1997 Intelsat 802 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
1997 Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful
1997 Telstar-5 Proton Launch, Successful
1997 Thor-2A Delta 2 Launch (Norway/USA), Successful
1997 Iridium-1 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful
1992 Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole
1991 Carlos Huerta's NCAA record streak of successful points after a touchdown ends at 157
1982 Dr. Michael E. Bakey performs 1st successful heart implant
1978 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law
1975 1st successful Washington Capitals penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks
1970 1st successful landing on Venus (U.S.S.R.)
1969 U.S.S.R. Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
1967 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V
1961 1st full-scale test of U.S. Minuteman ICBM is successful
1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1959 1st successful test-fire of Titan ICBM
1958 Army launches 4th U.S. successful satellite, Explorer IV
1958 U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
1957 U.S.S.R. announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
1956 Jeff Dujon, cricket wicket-keeper, WI 1981-91, their most successful
1953 1st successful separation of Siamese twins
1948 Sarfraz Nawaz, cricketer, successful Pakistani pace bowler 1969-84
1948 Wasim Bari, cricket wicket-keeper, Pakistan's most successful
1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1942 Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division
1940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Connecticut
1940 1st successful helicopter flight in US: Vought-Sikorsky US-300
1936 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
1934 Salim Durani, cricketer, successful Indian batsman of 60's
1929 Doug Ford, cricket wicket-keeper, successful NSW of 50's
1929 Tony Lock, cricketer, highly successful England slow lefty bowler
1924 4 planes leave Seattle on 1st successful around-the-world flight
1923 1st successful chinchilla farm in U.S. (Los Angeles California)
1922 1st successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in New York City
1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1912 Jack Cowie, cricketer, successful NZ fast bowler either side of WWII
1911 Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego
1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1905 George Bissett, cricketer, successful South African quick in 1927-28
1893 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia
1892 1st successful auroral photograph made
1886 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
1886 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
1870 Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine
1860 Nation's 1st successful silver mill, Virginia City, Nevada
1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
1819 1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins
1818 1st successful U.S. educational magazine "Academician," begins (New York City)
1816 Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
1794 Dr. Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife
1790 1st successful U.S. cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
1704 "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in U.S., forms
1704 1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell
1519 Ferdinand Magellan starts 1st successful circumnavigation of world
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