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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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