2012 Event Australian daredevil Felix Baumgartner breaks the world record for human ascent by balloon by space diving 128,100 feet out of the Red Bull Stratos helium-filled balloon over Roswell, New Mexico 1996 Death Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat, dies at 89 1994 Death Roswell Gilbert, who mercy killed his ailing wife, dies at 85 1966 Event KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, New Mexico (CBS) begins broadcasting 1962 Birthday Demi Moore, Guynes, Roswell, New Mexico, actress, Ghost, Striptease, GI Jane 1953 Event KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, New Mexico (NBC) begins broadcasting 1927 Birthday Joe Skeen, born in Roswell, New Mexico, Representative-R-New Mexico 1981 - 2003 1906 Birthday Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat 1904 Birthday Peter Hurd, Roswell, New Mexico, painter, Portrait of Jose Herrera 1823 Birthday Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brigadier General Confederate Army
