Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet Norman Baillie-Stewart, 57, British Army officer who defected to Nazi Germany and assisted in English-language propaganda broadcasts during World War II June 8, 1966 (Wednesday) The American Football League and National Football League announced that they would merge as equals, with all of the AFL teams becoming part of the NFL in 1970. The two leagues also agreed that each of their champions would meet in an annual title game. The "AFL-NFL World Championship Game" would soon become known as the "Super Bowl". The second XB-70 Valkyrie prototype was destroyed in a mid-air collision with an F-104 Starfighter during a photo shoot of five different jets, flying in formation "in order that photographs could be taken for the use of the General Electric company, which manufactured the engines of the five aircraft". NASA pilot Joseph A. Walker, who was flying the F-104, and the XB-70's co-pilot, U.S. Air Force Major Carl Cross, were both killed. Walker was well known for holding the record for fastest airplane, when he piloted the X-15 rocket plane at in 1962. Earlier in the year, he had reached a record airplane altitude of , placing the X-15 above the altitude that marks outer space. Walker's plane came too close to the Valkyrie and collided with its vertical stabilizers; both airplanes crashed near Barstow, California. Topeka, Kansas, was devastated by the first tornado to cause more than $100,000,000 (USD) in damages. The twister, which registered as an "F5" on the Fujita scale, killed 16 people and injured hundreds. All but one of the deaths happened in Topeka, with the exception being to the east in Tonganoxie. The death toll might have been higher except for weather radar that allowed tornado warnings to be sounded at 7:03 p.m., fifteen minutes before the tornado arrived; thousands of homes were damaged or destroyed, and the campus of Washburn University suffered catastrophic damage; a report at the time noted that the storm caused "extensive damage to almost every building on the 160-acre campus." Born: Jens Kidman, Swedish heavy metal vocalist for Meshuggah Julianna Margulies, American television actress (ER, The Good Wife) and winner of Emmy, Golden Globe, Critic's Choice and Screen Actors Guild awards; in Spring Valley, New York Died: Anton Melik, 76, Yugoslavian professor who compiled The Geography of Slovenia Joseph A. Walker, 45, American test pilot and astronaut, mid-air collision June 9, 1966