1933: The first episode of the ''Lone Ranger'' radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit. 1948: Airplane pioneer Orville Wright died. 1951: Austrian engineer Ferdinand Porsche, who designed the Volkswagen along with his sport scars, died. 1958: Ernst Heinkel, designer of the first jet-powered aircraft, died. 1964: The United States launched Ranger 6, an unmanned spacecraft carrying television cameras that was to crash-land on the moon. 1987: The U.S. Department of Energy announced its intention to build the world's largest particle accelerator, called the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), which was cancelled in 1995 after $2B had been spent. 1991: Nobel physicist John Bardeen, co-inventor of the transistor along with William Shockley and Walter Brattain, died. 2001: The Ultra Low Voltage Mobile Intel Pentium III processor was released. 2002: Japan's last coal mine was closed due to high production costs and cheap imports. 2005: Iraqis voted in their country's first free election in a half-century.