1903 The Wright brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1935 1st flight of the Douglas DC-3 (C-47 Skytrain/Dakota) airplane.
1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay.
1941 German troops led by Erwin Rommel begin retreating in North Africa.
1983 The Provisional IRA bombs Harrods department store in London, killing six people and injuring 90
1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the first heart, lung & liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England.
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Oh my God, not again!!
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