1900 1st 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.
1922 Last British troops leave Irish Free State.
1939 German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay.
1944 Three US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed.
1957 US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile.
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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