STS-1: The first operational Space Shuttle
📜 SPACE🌍 UNITED STATES
First Space Shuttle mission, first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia
Automobile & Transport History
🌍 World (3)
The inaugural Monaco Grand Prix takes place in the Principality of Monaco. William Grover-Williams wins driving a Bugatti Type 35.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
Motor car race
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln dies the following day.
📜 WARS🌍 UNITED STATES
1865 murder in Washington, D.C., US