Also on this day The passengers and crew of the Mayflower sight Cape Cod. U.S. Air Force Maj. Robert M. White becomes the first pilot to fly an X-15 rocket plane at six times the speed of sound.The Beatles’ future manager, Brian Epstein, first sees the group perform at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.The great Northeast blackout begins as a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours leave 30 million people in seven states and part of Canada without electricity.
A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasts off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight. Former French President Charles de Gaulle dies at age 79.The U.N.
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