1997 Death Henry C. Gordon, USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar), dies at 71 1991 Death James B Irwin, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15), dies at 61 1987 Death Donn Fulton Eisele, Col USAF/astronaut, dies of a heart attack at 57 1987 Death Ira C Eaker, commandant USAF in Europe (WW II), dies at 91 1986 Death Ellison S. Onizuka, born in Hawaii, Major USAF/Astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster 1986 Death Francis R Scobee, Wash, USAF/astronaut, dies in Challenger disaster 1982 Death Charles Russhon, USAF Lieutenant Colonel/liaison for James Bond films, dies at 71 1975 Event USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155 1974 Death Carl A Spaats, 1st chief of staff of USAF, dies at 83 1970 Death James M Taylor, USAF/astronaut, dies at 39 1969 Event USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings 1968 Event USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world 1967 Death Robert H Lawrence, USAF/astronaut, dies at 32 1967 Death Michael James Adams, USAF pilot (X-15), dies in X-15 crash at 37 1967 Death Russell L Rogers, USAF/astronaut (X-20), dies in explosion at 38 1967 Death Edward G Givens, Jr., Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47 1967 Birthday Edward M. Fincke, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Captain USAF/astronaut 1967 Death Edward Higgins White II, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), dies at 36 1966 Event USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129 1965 Event USAF Captain Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15 1965 Event Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam 1965 Event 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams 1964 Birthday James M. Kelly, Burlington Iowa, Captain USAF/astronaut 1963 Event USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m 1962 Event USAF Major Robert A. Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m 1962 Birthday Rex J Walheim, Redwood City California, Captain USAF/astronaut 1962 Event USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m 1962 Event USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m 1962 Event USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m 1962 Event USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m 1962 Event Robert A. Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m 1962 Event General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1961 Event USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m 1961 Event USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m 1961 Birthday Pamela Ann Melroy, born in Palo Alto, California, Major USAF/astronaut, sk:STS-92 1961 Event USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m 1961 Event USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours 1961 Event USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 32,000 m 1961 Event USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights 1960 Birthday Catherine G Coleman, Charleston, South Carolina, Phd/Captain USAF/astronaut, STS-73 1960 Birthday Steven W. Lindsey, Arcadia, California, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-87 1960 Event USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m 1960 Event USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 33,222 m 1959 Birthday Michael P Anderson, Plattsburgh, New York, major USAF/astronaut, STS-89 1959 Event USAF Captain Joe B. Jordan reaches 103,395 feet in F-104 jet fighter 1959 Event Benjamin O Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black General-major in USAF 1959 Event USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit 1959 Birthday Michael J. Bloomfield, born in Flint, Michigan, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-86 1959 Event USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), New Mexico 1959 Event USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects 1958 Event USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's 1958 Birthday Susan J. Helms, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Major USAF/Astronaut, STS-54, 64, 78 1957 Event USAF sends 2 aluminium bullets into space 1957 Birthday Rick Douglas Husband, born in Amarillo, Texas, USAF Major/astronaut 1957 Birthday William G. Gregory, born in Lockport, New York, Major USAF/Astronaut, STS-67 1957 Birthday Duane G. Carey, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, major USAF/astronaut 1957 Birthday Scott J. Horowitz, born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, PhD/Captain USAF/astronaut, STS-75, 82 1956 Birthday Eileen Marie Collins, born in Elmira, New York, Major USAF/Astronaut, STS-63, 84 1956 Birthday Paul S. Lockhart, born in Amarillo, Texas, Major USAF/astronaut 1955 Birthday Carl Erwin Walz, born in Cleveland, Ohio, Major USAF/Astronaut, STS-51, 65, 79 1955 Event New USAF Academy dedicated at Lowry AFB in Colorado with 300 cadets 1954 Birthday Kevin P. Chilton, born in Los Angeles, California, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/Astronaut, STS-49, 59, 76 1954 Event B. O. Davis, Jr. becomes 1st black general in USAF 1954 Event USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam 1953 Birthday Brian J. Duffy, born in Boston, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-45, 57, 72, sk:92 1953 Event USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen 1953 Event General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA 1952 Birthday Mark C Lee, Viroqua WI, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-30, 47, 64, 82,sk: 98 1952 Birthday Terence Tom Henricks, born in Bryan, Ohio, USAF/astronaut, STS-44, 55, 70, 78 1952 Birthday Donald R. McMonagle, born in Flint, Michigan, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-39, 54, 66 1952 Birthday Lloyd Blaine Hammond, Jr., Savannah, Georgia, Major USAF/astr, STS-39, 64 1951 Birthday Mark N Brown, Valparaiso, Indiana, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-28, 48, 66 1951 Birthday Sidney M. Gutierrez, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-40, 59 1951 Birthday Thomas D Akers, St. Louis, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-41, 49, 61, 79 1951 Event USAF flag approved 1950 Birthday Carl J Meade, Illinos, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-38, STS-50, 64 1949 Event Lucky Lady II (USAF B-50 Superfortress), completes 1st nonstop round- the-world flight at Fort Worth, Texas, covering 23,452 miles in 94 hours 1949 Event USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight 1948 Birthday Jerry Ross, Indiana, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut, STS-61B, 27, 37, 55, 74,sk:88 1948 Birthday Guy Spencer Gardner, Alta Vista, Virginia, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut, STS-27, STS-35 1947 Event USAF (U.S. Air Force) forms 1946 Birthday Richard O Covey, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USAF/astronaut, STS-51I, 26, 38, 61 1946 Birthday Ellison S. Onizuka, born in Hawaii, Major USAF/astronaut, STS-51C, 51L-Chal disaster 1945 Birthday Richard M. Mullane, born in Texas, USAF/astronaut, STS 41-D, STS-27, STS-36 1945 Birthday Ronald J Grabe, New York City, Col USAF/astronaut, STS-51-J, 30, 42, 57 1945 Birthday Brewster H Shaw, Jr., Michigan, Col USAF/astronaut, STS-9, STS 61B, STS-28 1944 Birthday Loren J. Shriver, Iowa, Col USAF/astronaut, STS-51-C, STS-31, STS-46 1944 Event USAF kills 136, wounds 621 GI's at St-Lo 1944 Event USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin 1943 Event USAF bombs Germans in Troina 1943 Birthday Roy Dunbard Bridges, Jr., born in Atlanta, Georgia, Col USAF/astronaut, STS-51-F, 61-F 1943 Birthday John H Casper, Greenville, South Carolina, USAF/astronaut, STS-36, 54, 62, 77 1942 Birthday Guion Steward Bluford, Jr., Philadelphia, Col USAF/astr, STS-8, 61A, 39, 53 1942 Birthday John E Blaha, San Antonio, USAF/astronaut, STS-29, 33, 43, 58, 79/81 1941 Birthday Frederick Drew Gregory, Washington D.C., Col USAF/astronaut, STS-51-B, 33, 44 1939 Birthday Francis R. Scobee, Wash, USAF/astronaut, STS-41C, 51L-Chal disaster 1939 Birthday John M Fabian, Goosecreek, Texas, Col USAF/astronaut, STS-7, STS-51G 1937 Birthday Karol Joseph Bobko, New York City, Col USAF/astronaut, STS-6, STS-51D, STS-51J 1935 Birthday John L Finley, USAF/astronaut 1935 Birthday Charles M. Duke, Jr., born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Brigadier General USAF and astronaut, Apollo 16 1935 Birthday Robert H Lawrence, born in Chicago, Illinois, USAF/astronaut 1933 Birthday Donald Herod Peterson, Winona Mississippi, Col USAF/astronaut, STS-6 1933 Birthday William A Anders, Hong Kong, Major Gen, USAF/astronaut, Apollo 8 1933 Birthday Stuart A "Smokey" Roosa, born in Durango, Colorado, Col USAF/astronaut, Apollo 14 1933 Birthday James A. Abrahamson, USAF/astronaut 1932 Birthday Robert T Herres, born in Denver, Colorado, USAF/astronaut 1932 Birthday Joe H. Engle, born in Abilene, Kansas, Brigadier General USAF/astronaut, STS-T-2, T-4, 2, 51I 1932 Birthday David R. Scott, born in San Antonio, Texas, Col USAF/astronaut, Gemini 8, Apollo 9, 15 1932 Birthday F Gregory Neubeck, USAF pilot 1932 Birthday Alfred M Worden, Jackson Michigan, Colonel USAF/astronaut, Apollo 15 1931 Birthday Charles A. Bassett II, Dayton Ohio, Captain USAF/astronaut 1931 Birthday Lachlan Macleay, USAF/pilot 1930 Birthday James M Taylor, Stamps ARK, USAF/astronaut 1930 Birthday Edward H White II, born in San Antonio, Texas, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut, Gemini 4 1930 Birthday Michael Collins, Rome, Major General USAF/astronaut, Gemini 10, Apollo 11 1930 Birthday Thomas P. Stafford, born in Weatherford, Oklahoma, USAF/astronaut, Gem 6 9, Ap 10 18 1930 Birthday Donn Fulton Eisele, born in Columbus, Ohio, Col USAF/astronaut, Apollo 7 1930 Birthday Michael James Adams, USAF pilot, X-15 1930 Birthday James Benson Irwin, Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania, Col USAF/astronaut, Apollo 15 1930 Birthday Theodore C. Freeman, Haverford Penn, Captain USAF/astronaut 1930 Birthday William Reid Pogue, Okemah Oklahoma, Colonel USAF/astronaut, Skylab 4 1930 Birthday Buzz Aldrin, born in Montclair, New Jersey, USAF/astronaut, Gem 12, Ap 11 1930 Birthday Edward Galven Givens, Jr., Quanah Texas, Major USAF/astronaut 1929 Birthday James McDivitt, born in Chicago, Brigadier General USAF/astronaut, Gemini 4, Apollo 9 1928 Birthday Russell L Rogers, USAF/astronaut, X-20 1927 Birthday Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, USAF/astronaut, Mer 9, Gem 5 1926 Birthday Virgil Grissom, born in Mitchell, Indiana, Lieutenant Colonel USAF/astronaut, Merc 4, Gemini 3 1925 Birthday Henry C Gordon, USAF/astronaut, Dynasoar 1925 Birthday Brent Scowcroft, born in Ogden, Utah, Lieutenant General, USAF, National Security Council 1924 Birthday James W. Wood, USAF/astronaut, Dynasoar 1924 Birthday Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton, born in Sparta, Wisconsin, Major USAF/astronaut, Apollo 18 1911 Birthday Charles Joseph A. Russhon, USAF Lieutenant Colonel/liaison, James Bond films 1897 Birthday Jacob A B "Jack" Bjerknes, Norwegian/US meteorologist, USAF in London 1897 Birthday Nathan F Twining, USAF general, Neither Liberty nor Safety 1896 Birthday James H Doolittle, USAF General, Raid on Tokyo 1942
