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Tag: English Channel

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25th July 1909: Louis Blériot makes the first powered cross-Channel flight

25th July 2020
Tagged as: Aircraft, Aviation, Daily Mail, English Channel, Flight, France, Invention, Science, Technology

French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.

Podcast

25th August 1875: Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim the English Channel

25th August 2019
Tagged as: England, English Channel, France, Sport, Swimming

Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to successfully swim across the English Channel.

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