Check out some of the events that took place on this day in history:

1997 The Return Of The Atlantis

The US Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully completed its mission and returned safely to earth on this day in 1997.

1970 Boeing 747 Takes Off

The inaugural flight of the Boeing 747 aircraft took off with Pan Am Airways flying from New York to London on this day back in 1970

BORN ON THIS DAY

  • 1965 – Diane Lane, the American actress
  • 1788 – Lord Byron, the English poet

DIED ON THIS DAY

  • 2008 – Heath Ledger, the actor
  • 1994 – Telly Savalas, the actor
  • 1973 – Lyndon B Johnson, the US President
  • 1901 – Queen Victoria