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Events on Sunday 18 November 1923 1
1923 – 1998Alan Shepard (1923-1998)Died 21 July 1998, aged 74Alan Shepard, the first American to travel into space aboard Freedom 7 in 1961 and commander of the Apollo 14 Moon landing in 1971, died of leukemia on 21 July 1998. He was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts.