1900 First prize of 100,000 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials. Martians excluded-considered too easy.
1903 The Wright brothers make the first sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1914 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities.
1918 A conference of workers' and soldiers' councils take control of German government in Berlin, until elections in January selects new national assembly.
1969 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings.
1986 Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart, lung and liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England.
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