On this day in 2004, Brazil's "Operation Cajuana" launched its first rocket into space, the VSB-30, just 14 months after its space program was hit a deadly launch pad accident. In 1946, the United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time, at an auditorium in Flushing Meadow, New York. In 1930, the first miniature golf tournament was completed in Chattanooga, Tennessee. And in 1929, the first North American transcontinental air service began between New York City and Los Angeles, California. Happy Birthday Ryan Reynolds (1976), "Weird Al" Yankovic and Sam Raimi (1959), Dwight Yoakam (1956), Ang Lee (1954), Michael Crichton (1942), Pel