On This Day in History
SCORE, the first communications satellite, is launched
1958The United States launched SCORE, the world's first communications satellite. (SCORE (satellite))
Also on this day
- 1932 The first NFL playoff game is played indoors — Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium on a modified field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in the first playoff game in National Football League history.
- 1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service premieres — On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth James Bond film and the only one to star George Lazenby, premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.
- 1966 The moon Epimetheus is discovered — Epimetheus, a moon of Saturn, was discovered but mistaken for Janus; it took twelve years to show that they are two objects sharing the same orbit.