On this day:
1919: Alcock and Brown take off for the first non-stop transatlantic flight
1949: Albert II becomes the first monkey in space
2002: A large asteroid, 2002 MN, just misses the Earth
Born on this day:
1928: Che Guevara, Argentine/Cuban physician, author, intellectual, diplomat, theorist
Gone on this day:
1920: Max Weber, German economist, sociologist