This week in history

September 12, 2013, Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to leave our solar system. Voyager 1 was launched on September 5, 1977.

Jesse Owens, Olympian, was born September 12, 1913 in Oakville, Alabama.

On September 12, 1995, the Belarusian military shot down a hydrogen balloon participating in the Gordon Bennett Cup International Race, killing it’s two pilots, Americans John Stuart-Jervis and Alan Fraencke.

Source(s): National Geographic Education

Compiled by Bob Valen