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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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20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France

30th March 1856: The Crimean War officially ends with the Treaty of Paris

28th March 1942: Operation Chariot and the St. Nazaire raid by British forces in WW2

11th July 1947: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe marked by this live #WorldFringeDay podcast

25th January 1947: Patent filed for the first interactive electronic game

24th January 41 CE: Emperor Caligula killed by the Praetorian Guard

23rd January 1900: British troops launch a nighttime attack on Spion Kop in the Second Boer War

22nd January 1905: Bloody Sunday massacre in Saint Petersburg

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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