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2003 China sends Yang Liwei into orbit, the third country to have successfully sent a person into space

1987 Flight Readiness Firing of Discovery's main engines is successfully

1984 DNA is successfully cloned from an extinct animal

1982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (University of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart

1972 Evil Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars

1962 Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time

1957 U.S. successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile

1955 Dr. Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine

1941 Howard Florey and Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they successfully recreate penicillin

1940 Greece successfully resists Italy's attack

1917 Andrew Taylor Still, osteopath, successfully reduced fractures, founded first school of osteopathic medicine, died at age 89

1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st U.S. autos at 6 MPH

1886 Robert Collier, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates, dies

1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine

1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)

1860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages

1859 Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used

1842 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope

1841 Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan

1828 Andrew Taylor Still, born in Lee County, Virginia, osteopath, successfully reduced fractures, founded first school of osteopathic medicine

1817 Robert Collier, born in England, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates

1774 Mass militiamen successfully attacked arsenal of Ft. William and Mary


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