1903 The Wright Brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1927 US submarine S-4 sinks after collision killing all 34 aboard.
1935 First flight of the Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) airplane.
1938 Discovery of nuclear fission using uranium by Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann.
1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay.
1944 US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed.
1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the first heart, lung and liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England.
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