On this day in history - Today, July, 2

Today in History

• 2002 American businessman, Steve Fossett completes the first solo around-the-world Balloon Flight

  This was Fossett's 6th attempt to circumnavigate the world. It took him 13 days in a balloon called

• 2001 World's First Self-Contained Artificial Heart Transplant

  59-year old American Robert L. Tools became the first person to receive the a self-contained artific

• 1937 American aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan are heard for the last time before disappearing

  They were attempting to make the first around-the-world flight in a Lockheed Model 10 Electra. Neith

• 1900 The Zeppelin Takes Off for the First Time

  The rigid aircraft named after Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the inventor of the dirigible and found

• 1843 Alligator Falls Out of the Sky in Charleston, South Carolina during a thunderstorm.

  It is believed that the strange incident happened when a waterspout carried an alligator from a body