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17 Dec
The First Powered Flight
- December 17th 1903 -
On a windswept beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright launched the first powered airplane into the sky. The flight lasted 12 seconds and took him 120 feet. The picture, left,...
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07 Dec
The Great Storm
- 7thDecember 1703 -
(26thNovember in the old calendar)
John Evelyn described the storm in his diary as ‘not to be paralleled with anything happening in our age or in any history almost ... every moment like Job’s...
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30 Nov
The Death of Oscar Wilde
- 30thNovember 1900 -
“My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go.”
These were reportedly the last words of Oscar Wilder before he died of meningitis in a seedy Paris...
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24 Nov
Abel Tasman Sights a New Island South of Australia
- 24thNovember 1642 -
Born in Lutjegast, Netherlands, around 1603, Tasman worked for the Dutch East India Company on anti-smuggling raids and other marine exercises before receiving his...
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Dr. David Livingstone meets Henry Morton Stanley
- 10th November 1871 – Modern day Tanzania -
I did not know how he would receive me; so I did what cowardice and false pride suggested was the best thing, - walked deliberately to him,...
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