Apollo 13 returns to Earth, 1970 AMERICAN REVOLUTION Colbert launches raid on Fort Carlos, Arkansas, 1783 AUTOMOTIVE Ford Mustang debuts at World’s Fair, 1964 CIVIL WAR Battle of Plymouth, North Carolina, begins, 1864 COLD WAR The Bay of Pigs invasion begins, 1961 CRIME A single horsehair uncovers a murderer, 1936 DISASTER Volcanic eruption kills 80,000, 1815 GENERAL INTEREST Benjamin Franklin dies, 1790 Yugoslavia surrenders, 1941 Architect of Czechoslovakia’s Prague Spring resigns, 1969 HOLLYWOOD General Hospital airs 10,000th episode, 2002 LITERARY Isak Dinesen is born, 1885 MUSIC Eddie Cochran dies, and Gene Vincent is injured, in a UK car accident, 1960 OLD WEST Life of Billy the Kid arrives at Library…

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 NASA has stated that it intends to put up its three space shuttle orbiters — Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour — on museums for public display after the fleet is retired. The agency requested interested museums submit statements of interest, including details for how they plan to meet the requirement of exhibiting an orbiter in an environmentally-controlled, enclosed display. NASA has reserved Discovery for the Smithsonian but the fates of Atlantis and Endeavour, as well as the prototype Enterprise have yet to be decided. In the interim, some of the 20 organizations vying for an orbiter have released concepts for how they plan to exhibit a retired…