10/5 Milestones 2

1918: French aerial hero and fighter pilot Roland Garros is shot down and killed by a German pilot. 1921: The Major League Baseball World Series is broadcast on television for the first time. 1930: The British R101 airship explodes and crashes during its maiden voyage. 1931: American pilots Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon complete the first non-stop trans-Pacific flight, arriving in Wenatchee, Washington, USA from Misawa, Aomori Prefecture, Japan, aboard the "Miss Veedol." 1938: German troops occupy the Sudetenland. 1944: The Provisional Government of the French Republic grants women the right to vote. 1948: A strong magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes near Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union, killing at least 10,000 people. 1951: The Republic of China announces its renunciation of war reparations claims against Japan to counter the Communist counterattack on the mainland. 1957: The Xinjiang-Tibet Highway, the highest altitude road in the world, is completed. 1962: The Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do," is officially released in the UK.