Influenza Pandemic of 1918 The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 killed between 20 and 40 […]
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Picture of the Day: February 26
Influenza of 1918 and the U.S. Navy A boxing match takes place on the […]
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Picture of the Day: July 19
Elizabeth Cady Stanton & the Seneca Falls Convention Elizabeth Cady Stanton made her first […]
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Picture of the Day: July 20
The First Man on the Moon Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his legendary ‘one small […]
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Picture of the Day: Douglas ‘Wrong-Way’ Corrigan
Pilot Douglas Corrigan sought permission from the Civil Aviation Authority to fly across the […]
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Picture of the Day: July 18
Red Skelton Legendary clown Richard ‘Red’ Skelton was born on July 18, 1913. During […]
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William Henson and John Stringfellow: Pioneer Aviation Strategists
In the 1840s, British aeronautical pioneers envisioned a world where air travel would connect people around the globe.
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Picture of the Day: July 16
The Trinity Atomic Bomb Test Just before dawn on July 16, 1945, the first […]
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St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line: World’s First Scheduled Airline Using Winged Aircraft
Scheduled service on the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line in the winter of 1914 treated a passenger or two to a wooden seat, fresh Florida air–and salt spray in the face.
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Picture of the Day: July 15
John James Audubon An artist and naturalist, John James Audubon was one of the […]