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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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22nd September 1888: First edition of National Geographic Magazine published

4th August 221: The death of Lady Zhen of the Three Kingdoms

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

16th January 1919: Nebraska becomes the vital 36th of the 48 states to approve prohibition in the 18th Amendment

27th February 1973: Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee

26th February 1917: The Original Dixieland ‘Jass’ Band makes the first commercially released jazz recording

25th February 1870: Hiram Rhodes Revels becomes the first African-American U.S. Senator

24th February 1848: King Louis Philippe of France abdicates

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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