(He survived.) That was in October.
Two months later, Wilbur Wright
spent 59 glorious seconds touring the
skies over Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.The last guillotine execution in France
occurred the same year that Star Wars
debuted. Hamida Djandoubi, a
Tunisian immigrant, was convicted
of killing his girlfriend and was put
to death on September 10, 1977. That
was only a few months after the first
Star Wars movie was released. TheThe New York Times predicted that
humans wouldn’t be able to fly for at
least a million years—in 1903. That
happened to be the same year the
Wright brothers made history. In fair-
ness to the Times, the paper published
its editorial “Flying Machines Which
Do Not Fly” right after an inventor
named Samuel Pierpont Langley
tested his “aerodrome.” An assistant
flew the contraption off the roof of
a houseboat floating on the Potomac
River—and crashed into the drink.THE LAST TIME
THE CLEVELAND
INDIANS WON
THE WORLD
SERIES, SHIRLEY
TEMPLE WAS
STILL ACTING IN
MOVIES.The Indians defeated
the Boston Braves in
the 1948 series. Temple
made her last movie,
A Kiss for Corliss, a year
later. FYI, the Braves
moved to Milwaukee in
1953 and then, in 1966,
to Atlanta, where the
team won the series in
1995, beating—you
guessed it—the Indians.96 june 2019
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