Flight

On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.  She was the third woman overall, after Soviet cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya.

On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. 

On June 7, 1942, the Allies won the Battle of Midway in the Pacific, turning the tide of the war.

Glenn Hammond Curtiss was born on May 21, 1878, in Hammondsport, New York.  He became interested in bicycles as a young man and was a champion racer, riding bikes he had designed and built.

Scientist and mathematician Dr. Theodore von Kármán was born on May 11, 1881, in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. 

On April 18, 1942, Jimmy Doolittle led a daring raid against the Japanese in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor.

On February 20, 1915, the Panama-Pacific Exposition opened in San Francisco, California.

On February 15, 1926, the first contract airmail flight was made between Michigan and Ohio.

Late in the evening of January 31, 1958, the US launched its first satellite, Explorer I.