July 17 Wrong Way Corrigan

On this day in history...

Corrigan files a flight plan to fly west across the United States in 1938. Upon takeoff he flies east across the Atlantic, completes the flight and gains his Wrong Way Corrigan
Disneyland Park opens in Anaheim California in 1955.
A docking in space between the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts occurs for the first time in 1975.


Also On This Day...

in 1955 day a lightning sets off an abandoned mine from the Battle of Messines in World War 1. The tons of explosives were placed to breach the German trenches and the decades later explosion results in no casualties except perhaps one cow.