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Hi, I'm Molly Wood. It's June 9, 2008, and here's what happened today in technology history. On this date in 1928, Charles Kingsford Smith became the first person to cross the Pacific ocean ... in an airplane. He flew from the United States to Australia in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane called the Southern Cross. The flight took eight days, and was done in three stages. Today in 1959, the USS George Washington launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles. No word on whether the missiles were ever used to carry mail. And finally, on this date in 1986, the Rogers Commission released its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, finding that faulty O-rings led to the disaster, with a minority report from renowned physicist Richard Feynman, who strongly believed that management sidelined engineers who could have detected the problem. And that's a wrap for today's collection of tech tidbits. Come on back for more tomorrow.
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