1992 U.S. space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1992 U.S. space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1991 Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92
1982 Tom Bakker, actor (Golden Voyage of Sinbad), dies of a drug OD at 42
1981 Maiden voyage of space shuttle Columbia
1977 Stephen Boyd, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur, Lisa), dies at 48
1977 Yvonne Printemps, actress (Paris Waltz, Voyage to America), dies at 81
1970 Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage
1969 British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York
1968 Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell and Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
1966 Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world
1963 John F. Kennedy proposes a joint U.S. - Soviet voyage to the moon
1962 Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
1961 Louis-Ferdinand Celine, writer (Voyage Au Bout de la Nu), dies at 67
1961 Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
1959 Shunryu Suzuki completes his historical Japan to San Francisco voyage
1955 Submarine Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage
1950 Goutam Ghose, director, Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar
1944 Jared Martin, New York City, actor, Varian-Fantastic Voyage, Dusty-Dallas
1936 Queen Mary completes its maiden voyage, arriving in New York
1936 RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for New York on maiden voyage
1935 French liner Normandie begins its maiden voyage
1933 Easley Blackwood, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, composer, Un Voyage a Cythere
1929 Graf Zeppelin passes over San Francisco for LA after trans-Pacific voyage
1928 Stephen Boyd, [William Millar], Ire, actor, Fantastic Voyage, Ben-Hur
1928 David Hedison, actor, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1926 David Hedison, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actor, Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea
1922 White Star Line Majestic completes 5 day maiden voyage
1919 Donald Pleasence, Worksop England, actor, Fantastic Voyage, Halloween
1914 Richard Basehart, Zanesville, Ohio, actor, Voyage to Bottom of Sea
1914 Richard Basehart, actor, Voyage to Bottom of the Sea
1914 Arthur Kennedy, Worcester Massachusetts, actor, Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place
1912 RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st and last voyage
1900 Marc Allegret, French director, Voyage ouch Congo
1895 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
1894 Jean Rhys, [Ella Williams], Dominica, writer, Voyage in the Dark
1869 1st voyage down Colorado River
1860 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
1838 Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to New York City)
1835 Charles Darwins voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
1831 Darwin begins his voyage on board HMS Beagle
1828 Hippolyte Taine, French philosopher/historian, Voyage in Italy
1817 1st Mississippi "Showboat," leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
1809 1st U.S. steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves New York for Phila
1798 George Vancouver, British explorer, (Voyage of Discovery), dies at 40
1790 Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
1787 1st U.S. voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston
1619 Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose, playwright, Voyage to the Moon
1601 John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th and last voyage
1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World
1494 On 2nd voyage to New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica
1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
1493 Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to America
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
1493 Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage
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