June 29 
1868: George Hale, responsible for the 200-inch telescope bearing his name on Palomar Mountain, was born. 1888: Professor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in England. 1925: Marvin Pipkin filed for a patent for the frosted electric light bulb. 1954: The Atomic Energy Commission voted 4:1 against reinstating Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's access to classified information. 1961: The first triple launch of satellites on a single rocket (Transit 4A) was made at Cape Canaveral. 1964: The first remote control television went on sale. 1986: Billionaire Richard Branson set a new speed record for crossing the Atlantic. 1995: The Atlantis Shuttle and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth. |