author of the thriller novel Red Alert, which was later adapted for the film Dr. Strangelove in 1964; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Cécile Butticaz, 81, who in 1907 became the first female engineer in Europe Papa Jack Laine, 92, American jazz musician June 2, 1966 (Thursday) Surveyor 1 landed in the Oceanus Procellarum (the "Sea of Storms"), 35 miles north of the crater Flamsteed at 2:17:37 a.m. Florida time, after a 63-hour journey, becoming the first American spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, using retrorockets to slow its descent. Hours later, NASA received the first television transmissions from Surveyor. The photos were expected to be sharper than those transmitted from the first probe to make a soft landing on the Moon, Luna 9, which had arrived four months earlier, on February 3. Over the next 11 days, the probe returned 11,240 photographs of the Moon to Earth before the transmission solar powered batteries failed on June 13 due to darkness. Died: Former Prime Minister Évariste Kimba, 39, and three other former cabinet ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Jérôme Anany, Emmanuel Bamba and André Mahamba), were publicly executed by hanging for alleged involvement in a plot to kill Mobutu Sese Seko. Born: Candace Gingrich, American LGBT rights activist, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania June 3, 1966 (Friday) Tigran Petrosian retained his title in the World Chess Championship, defeating Boris Spassky in the 22nd game of the 24-game series in Moscow that had started on April 11. Under the rules, a draw game counted as one-half of a point for each player, and the first to reach 12 points would win the match. Going into the game, Petrosian had an 11 to 10 lead based on three wins and 16 draws. After several postponements, Gemini 9 was launched into orbit at 9:39 a.m. from Cape Kennedy carrying astronauts Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan, but was not able to dock with the Augmented Target Docketing Adapter (ATDA) that replaced the Agena vehicle, after discovering that the ATDA's shroud had not jettisoned. Born: Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer named as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World in 1992 for his bowler abilities; in Lahore Died: Alice Calhoun, 65, American silent film actress June 4, 1966 (Saturday) The Senate of the Philippines voted, 15–8, to authorize President Ferdinand Marcos to send 2,000 soldiers to South Vietnam. With that