1900 First prize of 100,000 francs is offered for communication with extraterrestrials, with Martians excluded as they are 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.
1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay.
1986 Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the first heart, lung, and liver transplant at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Oh my God, not again!!
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