This Day in History Mar. 25

Mar. 25

1609 Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co
1634 The first settlers arrive in Maryland
1776 Continental Congress authorizes a medal for General George Washington
1807 1st railway passenger service began in England
1813 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex
1856 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine
1863 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded
1863 Skirmish at Brentwood TN
1864 Battle of Paducah KY (Forrest's raid)
1865 Battle of Bluff Spring FL
1865 Battle of Fort Stedman VA: in front of Petersburg
1865 Battle of Mobile AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks
1902 Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
1905 Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South
1915 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21
1915 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea
1943 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt Nazi registration
1945 US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
1945 US 4th Armored division arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
1945 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa
1949 SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied
1958 Canada's Avro Arrow makes its first flight
1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit
1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1971 Army of the Republic of Vietnam abandon attempt to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos
1976 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-206
1996 US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill

Sputnik 10 may have carried a dog into orbit, but it wasn't the first. In Nov 1957 the Soviets launched Laika into orbit aboard Sputnik 2. She died of panic and overheating about 5 hours after launch and burned up on re-entry about April 1958.