American industrialist and founder of the Ford Motor Company. He revolutionized manufacturing with the development of the assembly line technique of mass production, making automobiles affordable for the middle class and transforming American industry.
The USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine shortly after delivering components for the atomic bomb. The sinking resulted in the greatest single loss of life at sea in U.S. Navy history.
Apollo 15 lands on the Moon in the Hadley-Apennine region. It was the first mission to utilize the Lunar Roving Vehicle, allowing astronauts to explore significantly further distances from the lunar module.