2015 Event Construction workers discover an unexploded bomb from World War II near Wembley Stadium in London; after evacuations near the site, explosives specialists safely defused and removed the threat 2015 Event The Ezadeen, an abandoned ship carrying 450 Syrians, is rescued from choppy waters and brought safely to shore in Italy; the ship is the second to be abandoned by human traffickers off the nation's coast in the last four days 2014 Event A ship carrying 900 Syrians is intercepted and safely brought to shore by the Italian coast guard; the ship had been manned by human traffickers who abandoned the vessel after setting the navigation system on a collision course with the Italian coast 2014 Event Google reveals its self-driving car today; the prototype can drive 25 miles per hour and safely respond to a variety of situations; it should be road-ready sometime after 2016; Ford, Tesla and other firms are also working on self-driving technology 2013 Event Former President George W. Bush's airplane, a Gulfstream IV, on its way to Dallas' Love Field , was diverted safely to Louisville International AIrport when the pilot smelled smoke 2013 Event The Soyuz capsule safely lands in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 35 astronauts Thomas Marshburn of the U.S., Chris Hadfield of Canada and Roman Romanenko of Russia back from the International Space Station 2012 Event A video of SpaceX's latest test of the company's Grasshopper rocket with vertical takeoff and vertical landing, is released; the rocket rose 131 feet, hovered and landed safely on the landing pad December 17, 2012 2012 Event NASA reports its three-man crew of Joe Acaba and Russian colleagues Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin landed safely in the Russian-made Soyuz capsule after 123 days at the International Space Station 2012 Event The Curiosity rover controlled by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, lands safely on the surface of Mars 2012 Event Soyuz, a spacecraft originally designed for the Soviet space program, lands safely in Kazakhstan, with Oleg Kononenko of Russia, Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands, and Don Pettit of the United States, onboard 1997 Event White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time 1993 Event Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W 56th street in New York City 1990 Event Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Fly So Free, In The Wings, Meadow Star, Royal Academy, Safely Kept, Unbridled 1990 Event 1st 8 New York Yankees hit safely vs Baltimore Orioles to tie record 1988 Event Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard 1986 Event NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status" 1975 Event Soyuz 18A launch aborted short of orbit; cosmonauts return safely 1970 Event Apollo 13 returns back safely to Earth 1963 Event 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely 1962 Event Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15 1953 Event Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet 1941 Event Mickey Owens drops a 3rd strike, Tom Hendrick reaches 1st safely - would have been last out, instead Yankees score 4 and win 7-4 1936 Event Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yankees beat A's 25-2
