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17th December 1903: Wright brothers make first aircraft flight

17th December 2019
Tagged as: Aircraft, America, Flight, Innovation, Science, Technology, USA

On the 17^th December 1903, American brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight.

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6th July 1947: The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle goes into production in the USSR

6th July 2019
Tagged as: Cold War, Firearms, Guns, Innovation, Invention, Russia, Technology, USSR, War, Warfare, Weapon

The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle went into production in the Soviet Union.

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17th December 1903: Wright brothers make first aircraft flight

6th July 1947: The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle goes into production in the USSR

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12th April 1917: The Canadian Corps successfully capture Vimy Ridge

18th October 1565: European and Japanese naval forces fight for the first time

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27th December 1929: Stalin calls for the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’

5th December 1848: President James K. Polk sparks the California Gold Rush as a result of his State of the Union Address

4th December 1956: Million Dollar Quartet record at Sun Studios

3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’

2nd December 1804: Napoleon crowns himelf Emperor of the French

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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