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Creation of DOT
Lyndon B. Johnson signs Law 89-670, marking the beginning of the DOT. -
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
The first twenty federal motor vehicle safety standards are issued. -
Earth Day
The very first Earth Day really helped the enviromental movement take off and sealed the SST's fate -
A Heroic Job
September 11, 19 radical Islamics, who were part of al Qaeda, took 4 American domestic airliners and turned them into bombs which would destroy the World Trade Center in NYC and part of the Pentagon. FAA air controllers did a fabulous job bringing the rest of the herd down safely.