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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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16th January 1412: Antipope John XXIII makes the Medici Bank the official bank to the Papacy

19th March 1882: First stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

20th October 1740: Maria Theresa inherits the Austrian throne

25th December 1914: The Christmas Truce takes place at sections along the Western Front

12th May 1949: Stalin lifts the Berlin Blockade

11th May 868: The world’s earliest dated printed book created in China

10th May 1801: The First Barbary War began when Tripoli declared war on the United States

9th May 1671: Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels

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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