![]() ![]() The O-ring failure was due to the unusually cold conditions at Cape Canaveral. The cause of the explosion was later found to be a failed O-ring. In 1986, he was 46 years old when on January 28th, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch. Through secret negotiations, war was averted: the Soviet Union agreed to dismantle their weapons in Cuba and the United States agreed to never invade Cuba and to dismantle weapons in Turkey and Italy. The United States established a blockade to stop the base from being completed. The Soviet Union had been installing a nuclear missile base in Cuba. ![]() In 1962, at the age of 22 years old, John was alive when lasting from October 16th - 28th, the Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest that the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war. The US flag was changed to show 50 stars. In 1959, when he was 19 years old, on August 8th, Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States. When World War II began, men between 18 and 45 were subject to service and men up to 65 were required to register. Men between 21 and 36 were required to register with their draft boards. In 1940, in the year that John A Inman was born, on September 16th, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, was enacted - the first peacetime draft in U.S. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during John's lifetime. ![]()
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