On this day in 1979, the first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, was delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
On this day in 1992, Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.
On this day in 1996, the European Union's Veterinarian Committee banned the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease.
On this day in 2006, a gunman killed six people before taking his own life at a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.