WEEKLY PUZZLES · JUNE 21

SpaceShipOne's First Piloted Private Spaceflight

A strange-looking craft left a carrier plane over Mojave and aimed for the edge of space. Its short flight hinted at a different future for human space travel.

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SpaceShipOne and pilot Mike Melvill during the 21 June 2004 private suborbital flight from Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
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King John of England and the 1215 Magna Carta at Runnymede near Windsor, where a charter was sealed during negotiations with rebel barons.

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Historical depiction related to the Battle of Waterloo, fought near Waterloo in present-day Belgium on 18 June 1815 by French, Anglo-allied, and Prussian forces.

Waterloo Ends Napoleon’s Final Campaign

A famous battle near Brussels turned on hours, distance, and the movement of another army. Waterloo was decided by more…
General Order No. 3 and Union authority in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, when emancipation was publicly announced in Texas.

General Order No. 3 in Galveston

A military order in Galveston marked a turning point between policy on paper and freedom enforced on the ground in…
Queen Victoria in connection with her accession to the British throne in June 1837, after the death of William IV.

Victoria Becomes Queen of the United Kingdom

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SpaceShipOne and pilot Mike Melvill during the 21 June 2004 private suborbital flight from Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

SpaceShipOne's First Piloted Private Spaceflight

A strange-looking craft left a carrier plane over Mojave and aimed for the edge of space. Its short flight hinted at a…