On this day in history: 1581 – Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world. 1828 - Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder. 1832 - Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro. 1887 - Susanna Medora Salter elected first US woman mayor. 1914 - Perils of Pauline shown for first time in LA. 1922 - WAAB (Baton Rouge La) becomes first US radio station with W calls. 1933 – U.S. Navy airship, USS Akron, is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather. 1964 – The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. 1968 - Apollo 6 Launch (Last Test Flight of Saturn V). 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. 1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart. 1975 – Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1983 – Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6). 1994 – Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name Mosaic Communications Corporation. 1996 – Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
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