1870 - United States President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the National Weather Service.
1923 - Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms.
1962 - Jamaica signs agreement to become independent.
1971 - Sylmar earthquake; hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
1971 - Apollo 14; Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell return to Earth after sucessfully landing on the Moon.
1995 - Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off for mission STS-63 - Astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform space walks.
