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(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. The

The 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.

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