1917 – A powerful F4
tornado rips
Mattoon, Illinois apart, killing 101 persons and injuring 689. It was the world's longest-lasting tornado, lasting for over 7 hours and traveling 293 miles, spreading death and destruction along its path.
1969 –
Apollo program:
Apollo 10 returns to
earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned
moon landing.
2002 – The
Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet
Mars.
2004 – The New York Times publishes an admission of journalistic failings, claiming that its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism towards sources during the buildup to the
2003 war in Iraq helped promote the belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of
weapons of mass destruction.