On This Day | 14 June

On this day:

1919: Alcock and Brown take off for the first non-stop transatlantic flight

1949: Albert II becomes the first monkey in space

2002: A large asteroid, 2002 MN, just misses the Earth

Born on this day:

1928: Che Guevara, Argentine/Cuban physician, author, intellectual, diplomat, theorist

Gone on this day:

1920: Max Weber, German economist, sociologist