Today
: Important things
1889 – The first long-distance
electric power transmission
line in the United States
is completed, running
14 miles (23 km) between
a generator at Willamette
Falls and downtown Portland,
Oregon.
1965 – Launch of Gemini
4, the first multi-day
space mission by a NASA
crew. Crew-member Ed White
performs the first American
spacewalk.