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Alcock & Brown Cross Atlantic
Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, both British, made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919.
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Amy Johnson Flies to Australia
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Bleirot crosses Channel
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Concorde: First flight (French)
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Concorde: First flight (UK)
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Crystal Palace Fire
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Death Amy Johnson
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Discovery King Tutankhamen`s Tomb
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Everest Conquered
Edmund Hillary, and the Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the Nepal-Tibet border.They reached the top of the world at 11.30 local time after a gruelling climb up the southern face.
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First Man in Space
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Houses of Parliament Fire
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Lindbergh Flies Atlantic Solo
Heavily laden with fuel, Charles Lindbergh`s plane - "Spirit of St Louis" - bounced down the muddy field and barely cleared the telephone wires at the edge of the field.Thirty-three and one half-hours and 3,500 miles later he landed in Paris, the first to fly the Atlantic alone.
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Man on the Moon
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