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

6th July 2022
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

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

17th December 1903: Wright brothers make first aircraft flight

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

6th February 1958: Munich Air Disaster kills 23 members of the Manchester United football team after BEA flight 609 crashes at Munich-Riem airport

5th February 1958: Nuclear bomb lost off Tybee Island in Georgia, USA after an in-air collision

4th February 1945: Yalta Conference begins, attended by the ‘Big Three’ of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin

3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its 29-year Cold War flight above the USA

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

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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