** Trace Cyrus ( born 1989 ), American musician ; ( former ) lead guitarist of Metro Station

** USS Sacramento ( AOE-1 ) was the lead ship of Sacramento-class fast combat support ships, commissioned in 1964 and decommissioned in 2004.

** Reggie Jackson blasts 3 home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

** Burundian presidential election, 1993: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the Front for Democracy in Burundi.

** Randy Owen, American country lead vocalist, rhythm guitar player

** In Holmdel, New Jersey, scientists at Bell Labs announce they have created a digital optical processor that could lead to the development of superfast computers that use pulses of light rather than electric currents to make calculations.

** A then-record number of viewers ( for an entertainment program ) tune into the U. S. TV soap opera Dallas to learn who shot lead character J. R. Ewing.

** Billie Joe Armstrong, American rock musician and lead singer / guitarist ( Green Day )

** Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury dies from pneumonia induced by AIDS.

** David Draiman song writer and lead singer for the band Disturbed

** Adam Gontier, lead singer of Canadian band Three Days Grace

** Australian Democrats leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, the first woman to lead a political party in Australia.

** Phil Lynott, lead singer and bassist of Thin Lizzy ( b. 1949 )

** Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee, becoming the first African American to lead a major United States political party.

** Fidel Castro and his brother lead a disastrous assault on the Moncada Barracks, preliminary to the Cuban Revolution.

** Grease: You're the One that I Want !, a U. S. 2007 reality TV show casting the lead roles in revivals of the musical

** Grease is the Word, a U. K. 2007 reality TV show casting the lead roles in revivals of the musical

** lead, mercury, organotins ( trimethyltin )

** Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman politician, who, as a plebeian tribune, will cause political turmoil in the Republic through his attempts to legislate agrarian reforms ; his political ideals will eventually lead to his death at the hands of supporters of the conservative faction ( Optimates ) of the Roman Senate ( d. 132 BC )

** La Fayette ( F710 ), French stealth frigate, lead ship of the La Fayette class

** The pathologic process, injury, or disease that directly results in or initiates a series of events that lead to a person's death ( also called mechanism of death ), such as a bullet wound to the head, exsanguination caused by a stab wound, manual or ligature strangulation, myocardial infarction resulting from coronary artery disease, etc.

** SMS Königsberg ( 1905 ), lead ship of the class, stationed in German East Africa at the start of World War I

** SMS Königsberg ( 1915 ), lead ship of the class

** German cruiser Königsberg, lead ship of this class

** 1996: Rajiv Kapoor's film Prem Granth with Madhuri Dixit, Rishi Kapoor and Shammi Kapoor in lead roles.

** Ocean track, in flight planning, the path of an aircraft as determined by heading, slip, and wind effects

** Space Shuttle program: Last test taxi flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise.

** The Lockheed's top-secret stealth aircraft project, designated Have Blue, precursor to the U. S. F-117A Nighthawk, makes its first flight.

** Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.

** In Toulouse, France the first Concorde test flight is conducted.

** French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first nonstop flight from Paris to London, in three hours.

** The only flight of the German ramming unit known as the Sonderkommando Elbe takes place, resulting in the loss of some 24 B-17s and B-24s of the United States Eighth Air Force.

** A BOAC scheduled passenger flight, a DC-3 with registration G-AGBB, ( formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis ), enroute between Lisbon and Bristol, is attacked over the Bay of Biscay by German fighters.

** Howard Hughes nearly dies in a test flight of the Hughes XF-11 and crashes it in a suburban Beverly Hills neighborhood because of a propeller malfunction.

** Avianca Flight 52 crashes into Cove Neck, Long Island, after a miscommunication between the flight crew and JFK Airport officials, killing 73 people on board.

** Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3 stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles ( the only sounding rocket developed in Germany ).

** Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada, becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.

** Space Shuttle Endeavor makes its maiden flight, as a replacement for a lost Space Shuttle.

** In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on board.

** A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56 people.

** The Lockheed L-1649A Starliner makes its first flight.

** The first flight by the Irish airline Aer Lingus takes place.

** The first revenue flight for Belgium's SABENA Airlines takes place.

** The first flight of Dutch air company KLM, from Amsterdam to London, takes place.

** First free flight of Igor Sikorsky's Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter.

** NASA announces the crew for the Apollo 7 space mission ( first manned Apollo flight ): Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham.

** The first British aid flight arrives in Lusaka ; Zambia had asked for British help against Rhodesia.

** A Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from Jeddah crashes in Kano, Nigeria ; 176 people are killed.

** Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board ; 176 survive the crash.

** The Hindawi Affair begins when an Irishwoman is found unknowingly carrying explosives onto an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv.