chuck yeager

January 19, 2026

This week in history: Oct. 9 to Oct. 15

October 9, 2025 The Associated Press

Oct. 9 1910: A coal dust explosion at the Starkville Mine in Colorado killed 56 miners. 1962: Uganda won independence from British rule. 1967: Marxist guerrilla leader Che Guevara, 39, was executed by the Bolivian […]

Chuck Yeager, 1st to break sound barrier, dies at 97

December 8, 2020 The Associated Press

Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the “right stuff” when in 1947 he became the first person to […]