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m[0]=0
t[0]="1894: The Manchester Ship Canal was opened to traffic."
d[1]=2
m[1]=0
t[1]="1959: The USSR launches Lunar 1, this becomes the first space vehicle to reach escape velocity and passes the moon on 4 January at a distance of 6000km."
d[2]=3
m[2]=0
t[2]="1924: The sarcophagus of Tutankhamen was discovered by Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings."
d[3]=4
m[3]=0
t[3]="1958: Sputnik 1 fell back to earth."
d[4]=5
m[4]=0
t[4]="1896: First demonstration of x-rays by Roentgen."
d[5]=6
m[5]=0
t[5]="1838: Samuel Morse gave the first public demonstration of the electric telegraph."
d[6]=7
m[6]=0
t[6]="1785: The English Channel is crossed for the first time in a hot air balloon by Jean Pierre Blanchard and Dr John Jeffries."
d[7]=8
m[7]=0
t[7]="1642: Galileo Galilei died."
d[8]=9
m[8]=0
t[8]="1816: Sir Humphry Davy′s safety lamp was first used in a coalmine."
d[9]=10
m[9]=0
t[9]="1863: World′s first underground railway is opened, Metropolitan line London."
d[10]=11
m[10]=0
t[10]="1902: First publication of Popular Mechanics."
d[11]=12
m[11]=0
t[11]="1866: Royal Aeronautical Society founded in London."
d[12]=13
m[12]=0
t[12]="1864: Wilhelm Wien was born."
d[13]=14
m[13]=0
t[13]="1742: Edmond Halley died."
d[14]=15
m[14]=0
t[14]="1759: British Museum opened for the first time."
d[15]=16
m[15]=0
t[15]="1967: Robert Van de Graff died."
d[16]=17
m[16]=0
t[16]="1773: Antarctic Circle is crossed for the first time by Captain Cook in the ship Resolution."
d[17]=18
m[17]=0
t[17]="1911: Eugene Ely was the first person to land an aircraft on a ship′s deck."
d[18]=19
m[18]=0
t[18]="1813: Sir Henry Bessemer was born."
d[19]=20
m[19]=0
t[19]="1930: Edwin Eugene Aldrin, second man on the Moon, was born."
d[20]=21
m[20]=0
t[20]="1912: Konrad Bloch was born."
d[21]=22
m[21]=0
t[21]="1775: Andre-Marie Ampere was born."
d[22]=23
m[22]=0
t[22]="1929: Chemist John C. Polanyi was born."
d[23]=24
m[23]=0
t[23]="1888: German aircraft designer Ernst Heinrich Heinkel was born."
d[24]=25
m[24]=0
t[24]="1627: Robert Boyle was born."
d[25]=26
m[25]=0
t[25]="1926: John Logie Baird demonstrated television to members of the Royal Institution."
d[26]=27
m[26]=0
t[26]="1989: Aircraft designer Thomas Sopwith died."
d[27]=28
m[27]=0
t[27]="1986: Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, seventy-three seconds later the shuttle exploded in a forking plume of smoke and fire."
d[28]=29
m[28]=0
t[28]="1886: Karl Benz patents the first petrol driven vehicle."
d[29]=30
m[29]=0
t[29]="1948: Orville Wright died."
d[30]=31
m[30]=0
t[30]="1958: USA launches its first artificial satellite."
d[31]=1
m[31]=1
t[31]="2003: Space Shuttle Columbia breaks up on re-entry."
d[32]=2
m[32]=1
t[32]="1902: Charles Lindbergh was born."
d[33]=3
m[33]=1
t[33]="1862: Jean-Baptiste Biot died."
d[34]=4
m[34]=1
t[34]="1810: Henry Cavendish died."
d[35]=5
m[35]=1
t[35]="1878: French engineer and industrialist André-Gustave Citroën was born."
d[36]=6
m[36]=1
t[36]="1964: The British and French Governments announce their commitment to build the Channel Tunnel."
d[37]=7
m[37]=1
t[37]="1918: American geneticist Ruth Sager was born."
d[38]=8
m[38]=1
t[38]="1969: The Boeing 747 made its first flight."
d[39]=9
m[39]=1
t[39]="1700: Daniel Bernoulli was born."
d[40]=10
m[40]=1
t[40]="1923: Wilhelm von Roentgen died."
d[41]=11
m[41]=1
t[41]="1847: Thomas Edison was born."
d[42]=12
m[42]=1
t[42]="1809: Charles Darwin was born."
d[43]=13
m[43]=1
t[43]="1910: William B. Shockley was born."
d[44]=14
m[44]=1
t[44]="1869: C.T.R. Wilson was born."
d[45]=15
m[45]=1
t[45]="1564: Galileo Galilea was born."
d[46]=16
m[46]=1
t[46]="1923: Howard Carter opened the sealed doorway to the sepulchral chamber of King Tutankhamen′s tomb in Thebes, Egypt."
d[47]=17
m[47]=1
t[47]="1888: Otto Stern was born."
d[48]=18
m[48]=1
t[48]="1930: Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh."
d[49]=19
m[49]=1
t[49]="1916: Ernst Mach died."
d[50]=20
m[50]=1
t[50]="1962: First US orbital spaceflight is made by John Glenn in Friendship 7."
d[51]=21
m[51]=1
t[51]="1912: Osborne Reynolds died."
d[52]=22
m[52]=1
t[52]="1857: German physicist Heinrich Hertz was born."
d[53]=23
m[53]=1
t[53]="1886: Charles M. Hall completed his electrolytic process for the separation of aluminum from its ore."
d[54]=24
m[54]=1
t[54]="1663: Thomas Newcomen, inventor of the atmospheric steam engine, was born."
d[55]=25
m[55]=1
t[55]="1723: Sir Christopher Wren died."
d[56]=26
m[56]=1
t[56]="1935: RADAR was first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt."
d[57]=27
m[57]=1
t[57]="1932: The neutron was discovered by Dr. James Chadwick."
d[58]=28
m[58]=1
t[58]="1909: Linus Pauling was born."
d[59]=29
m[59]=1
t[59]="1860: Herman Hollerith, inventor of a tabulating machine, was born."
d[60]=1
m[60]=2
t[60]="1966: Soviet spacecraft Venus 3 landed on Venus."
d[61]=2
m[61]=2
t[61]="1969: Concorde made its first flight."
d[62]=3
m[62]=2
t[62]="1915: NACA was formed "...to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view of their practical solution". "
d[63]=4
m[63]=2
t[63]="1923: Patrick Moore, amateur astronomer, was born."
d[64]=5
m[64]=2
t[64]="1936: The Spitfire made its first flight."
d[65]=6
m[65]=2
t[65]="1787: German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer was born."
d[66]=7
m[66]=2
t[66]="1792: Sir William Hershel was born."
d[67]=8
m[67]=2
t[67]="1952: An artificial heart was used for the first time on a 41-year-old man which kept him alive for 80 minutes."
d[68]=9
m[68]=2
t[68]="1934: Yuri Gagarin was born."
d[69]=10
m[69]=2
t[69]="1791: John Stone patented the pile driver."
d[70]=11
m[70]=2
t[70]="1811: Urbain Leverrier was born."
d[71]=12
m[71]=2
t[71]="1942: Sir William Henry Bragg died."
d[72]=13
m[72]=2
t[72]="1733: Joseph Priestley was born."
d[73]=14
m[73]=2
t[73]="1879: Albert Einstein was born."
d[74]=15
m[74]=2
t[74]="1854: German bacteriologist Emil von Behring was born."
d[75]=16
m[75]=2
t[75]="1789: German physicist Georg Simon Ohm was born."
d[76]=17
m[76]=2
t[76]="1834: Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was born."
d[77]=18
m[77]=2
t[77]="1965: The first ever spacewalk was made by Alexei Leonov from Voskhod 2."
d[78]=19
m[78]=2
t[78]="1883: British chemist Sir Norman Haworth was born."
d[79]=20
m[79]=2
t[79]="1727: Isaac Newton died."
d[80]=21
m[80]=2
t[80]="1768: Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier was born."
d[81]=22
m[81]=2
t[81]="1868: Robert Andrews Millikan was born."
d[82]=23
m[82]=2
t[82]="1749: Pierre Simon Laplace was born."
d[83]=24
m[83]=2
t[83]="1941: American radio astronomer and physicist Joseph H Taylor Jr. was born."
d[84]=25
m[84]=2
t[84]="1857: Frederick Laggenheim took the first photograph of a solar eclipse."
d[85]=26
m[85]=2
t[85]="1821: German statistician Ernst Engel was born."
d[86]=27
m[86]=2
t[86]="1863: Henry Royce was born."
d[87]=28
m[87]=2
t[87]="1979: A power plant at Three Mile Island, within 10 miles of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, provoked local panic and international alarm when an overheated nuclear reactor caused a radioactive leak into the atmosphere."
d[88]=29
m[88]=2
t[88]="1927: English biochemist John Robert Vane was born."
d[89]=30
m[89]=2
t[89]="1867: United States buys Alaska from Russia."
d[90]=31
m[90]=2
t[90]="1596: Rene Descartes was born."
d[91]=1
m[91]=3
t[91]="1976: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak incorporate the Apple Computer Company."
d[92]=2
m[92]=3
t[92]="1934: American mathematician Paul Joseph Cohen was born."
d[93]=3
m[93]=3
t[93]="1827: German physicist Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni, known as the father of acoustics, was born."
d[94]=4
m[94]=3
t[94]="1617: John Napier died."
d[95]=5
m[95]=3
t[95]="1976: Howard Hughes died."
d[96]=6
m[96]=3
t[96]="1928: James Dewey Watson was born."
d[97]=7
m[97]=3
t[97]="1827: First matches sold, invented by John Walker."
d[98]=8
m[98]=3
t[98]="1879: Milk was sold in glass bottles for the first time."
d[99]=9
m[99]=3
t[99]="1864: Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti was born."
d[100]=10
m[100]=3
t[100]="1813: Joseph Louis Lagrange died."
d[101]=11
m[101]=3
t[101]="1907: Sir Frank Whittle was born."
d[102]=12
m[102]=3
t[102]="1961: Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1 was the first human to travel in space."
d[103]=13
m[103]=3
t[103]="1892: Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, credited with the development of RADAR, was born."
d[104]=14
m[104]=3
t[104]="1629: Christian Huygens was born."
d[105]=15
m[105]=3
t[105]="1912: Titanic sinks on it′s maiden voyage, 1513 lives lost."
d[106]=16
m[106]=3
t[106]="1894: Russian-U.S. mathematician and statistician Jerzy Neyman was born."
d[107]=17
m[107]=3
t[107]="1946: German immunologist Georges J.F. Köhler was born."
d[108]=18
m[108]=3
t[108]="1955: Albert Einstein dies at the age of 76."
d[109]=19
m[109]=3
t[109]="1912: American nuclear chemist Glenn T. Seaborg was born."
d[110]=20
m[110]=3
t[110]="1927: Swiss physicist Karl Alex Müller was born."
d[111]=21
m[111]=3
t[111]="1918: Manfred von Richthofen "Red Baron" was shot down over the Somme."
d[112]=22
m[112]=3
t[112]="1904: Robert Oppenheimer was born."
d[113]=23
m[113]=3
t[113]="1858: Max Planck was born."
d[114]=24
m[114]=3
t[114]="1990: Hubble space telescope was launched."
d[115]=25
m[115]=3
t[115]="1859: Construction of the Suez Canal started."
d[116]=26
m[116]=3
t[116]="1986: A nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in the USSR explodes. This leads to a massive leak of radioactive material that kills many people, affects soil as far away as the UK and means all families within a 30km radius eventually have to be evacuated."
d[117]=27
m[117]=3
t[117]="1875: Maurice de Broglie was born."
d[118]=28
m[118]=3
t[118]="2001: The first space tourist blasts off."
d[119]=29
m[119]=3
t[119]="1854: French mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Henri Poincaré was born."
d[120]=30
m[120]=3
t[120]="1777: Carl Friedrich Gauss was born."
d[121]=1
m[121]=4
t[121]="1825: Swiss mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer was born."
d[122]=2
m[122]=4
t[122]="1519: Leonardo da Vinci died."
d[123]=3
m[123]=4
t[123]="1695: French hydraulic engineer and inventor of the pitot tube Henri Pitot was born."
d[124]=4
m[124]=4
t[124]="2000: Computer virus "the love bug" strikes around the world affecting roughly 1/10th of all servers."
d[125]=5
m[125]=4
t[125]="1961: Alan Shepard became the first American to travel in space."
d[126]=6
m[126]=4
t[126]="1937: Hindenburg bursts into flames on approach to it′s mooring."
d[127]=7
m[127]=4
t[127]="1945: Germany unconditionally surrenders, the war in Europe is over."
d[128]=8
m[128]=4
t[128]="1808: John Scott Russell, British civil engineer best known for researches in ship design, was born."
d[129]=9
m[129]=4
t[129]="1850: Edward Weston, British-born American electrical engineer and industrialist, was born."
d[130]=10
m[130]=4
t[130]="1869: The first transcontinental railroad in the United States completed."
d[131]=11
m[131]=4
t[131]="1871: Sir William Hershel died."
d[132]=15
m[132]=4
t[132]="1985: Ozone hole discovered by British Antarctic scientists."
d[133]=16
m[133]=4
t[133]="1830: Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier died."
d[134]=18
m[134]=4
t[134]="1980: Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state exploded."
d[135]=20
m[135]=4
t[135]="1990: First image received from the Hubble telescope."
d[136]=21
m[136]=4
t[136]="1927: Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean when he landed Spirit of St. Louis near Paris."
d[137]=24
m[137]=4
t[137]="1883: Brooklyn Bridge, designed by John A. Roebling, officially opened."
d[138]=25
m[138]=4
t[138]="1844: Stuart Perry patented the gasoline engine."
d[139]=26
m[139]=4
t[139]="1667: Abraham de Moivre was born."
d[140]=29
m[140]=4
t[140]="1953: Mount Everest was conquered by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay. "
d[141]=3
m[141]=5
t[141]="1965: Edward White became the first American to walk in space."
d[142]=6
m[142]=5
t[142]="1944: D-Day invasion started with Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy."
d[143]=15
m[143]=5
t[143]="1752: Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod."
d[144]=16
m[144]=5
t[144]="1963: Valentina Tereshkova is the first woman in space."
d[145]=17
m[145]=5
t[145]="1928: Amelia Earhart embarked on the first trans-Atlantic flight by a woman. She flew from Newfoundland to Wales in roughly 21 hours."
d[146]=19
m[146]=5
t[146]="1623: Blaise Pascal was born."
d[147]=21
m[147]=5
t[147]="1781: Siméon Denis Poisson was born."
d[148]=28
m[148]=5
t[148]="1919: Treaty of Versailles is signed with the aim of bringing peace to Europe after World War I."
d[149]=29
m[149]=5
t[149]="1995: Space shuttle Atlantis and Mir space station dock to form the largest man-made satellite."
d[150]=3
m[150]=6
t[150]="1938: Mallard becomes the fastest ever steam locomotive recording 125 miles per hour between Grantham and Peterborough."
d[151]=4
m[151]=6
t[151]="1776: The American Congress passed the Declaration of Independence."
d[152]=8
m[152]=6
t[152]="1695: Christian Huygens died."
d[153]=9
m[153]=6
t[153]="1856: Amedeo Avogadro died."
d[154]=11
m[154]=6
t[154]="1979: Skylab made a spectacular return to Earth, burning up in the atmosphere over the Indian Ocean and Australia."
d[155]=14
m[155]=6
t[155]="1965: Mariner 4 made a fly by of Mars and sent back photographs."
d[156]=16
m[156]=6
t[156]="1945: First atomic bomb exploded."
d[157]=18
m[157]=6
t[157]="1975: A US Apollo spacecraft docks with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft while in Earth orbit, the first international co-operative space flight."
d[158]=20
m[158]=6
t[158]="1969: Apollo 11 crew make the first human landing on the moon."
d[159]=25
m[159]=6
t[159]="1909: Louis Bleriot crosses the English Channel."
d[160]=27
m[160]=6
t[160]="1844: John Dalton died."
d[161]=31
m[161]=6
t[161]="1964: American Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the moon′s surface."
d[162]=3
m[162]=7
t[162]="1958: Nuclear powered submarine Nautilus became the first vessel to cross under the North Pole."
d[163]=5
m[163]=7
t[163]="1858: First transatlantic cable completed. Enabling telegraph communication between the USA and Great Britain."
d[164]=6
m[164]=7
t[164]="1945: The first atomic bomb was detonated at Hiroshima, Japan, about 70,000 people were killed instantly; about 30,000 more people died within several weeks."
d[165]=8
m[165]=7
t[165]="1902: Paul Dirac was born."
d[166]=9
m[166]=7
t[166]="1945: Second atom bomb to be used, dropped on Nagasaki."
d[167]=14
m[167]=7
t[167]="1777: Hans Christian Ørsted was born."
d[168]=15
m[168]=7
t[168]="1914: Panama canal opened."
d[169]=19
m[169]=7
t[169]="1913: The first parachute drop in Europe by Frenchman Pegoud."
d[170]=20
m[170]=7
t[170]="1913: The first loop was made in an aeroplane by Piotr Nesterov in a Nieuport Monoplane."
d[171]=23
m[171]=7
t[171]="1806: French physicist Charles Auguste de Coulomb died."
d[172]=24
m[172]=7
t[172]="79 AD: Mount Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii and Herculaneum in hot ash."
d[173]=25
m[173]=7
t[173]="1867: Chemist and physicist Michael Faraday died."
d[174]=28
m[174]=7
t[174]="1728: Johann Heinrich Lambert was born."
d[175]=29
m[175]=7
t[175]="1831: Michael Faraday demonstrated the electrical transformer."
d[176]=30
m[176]=7
t[176]="1871: Ernest Rutherford was born."
d[177]=3
m[177]=8
t[177]="1939: Britain declare war on Germany."
d[178]=5
m[178]=8
t[178]="1766: John Dalton was born."
d[179]=7
m[179]=8
t[179]="1783: Leonhard Euler died."
d[180]=12
m[180]=8
t[180]="1901: Marconi receives the first transatlantic signal from Cornwall to Newfoundland."
d[181]=14
m[181]=8
t[181]="1959: The USSR Lunik 2 probe becomes the first man-made object to reach a celestial body."
d[182]=18
m[182]=8
t[182]="1752: Adrian Marie Legendre was born."
d[183]=19
m[183]=8
t[183]="1783: Montgolfier brothers placed a sheep, a duck and a rooster in the basket of a hot air balloon and they become the first living creatures to make a balloon ascent."
d[184]=20
m[184]=8
t[184]="1967: QE2 was launched."
d[185]=23
m[185]=8
t[185]="1846: Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier locates Neptune from calculations on the irregularities in the orbit of Uranus."
d[186]=25
m[186]=8
t[186]="1777: Johann Heinrich Lambert died."
d[187]=27
m[187]=8
t[187]="1825: Stockton and Darlington Railway is the World′s first public transport system. "
d[188]=29
m[188]=8
t[188]="1954: The Centre Européen de Recherche Nucléaire (CERN) was founded."
d[189]=30
m[189]=8
t[189]="1982: H. Ross Perot and Jay Colburn completed the first circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter, the Spirit of Texas."
d[190]=4
m[190]=9
t[190]="1957: Sputnik becomes the first man-made object to orbit the Earth."
d[191]=5
m[191]=9
t[191]="1931: Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon completed the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean."
d[192]=7
m[192]=9
t[192]="1885: Niels Bohr was born."
d[193]=10
m[193]=9
t[193]="1731: Henry Cavendish was born."
d[194]=12
m[194]=9
t[194]="1492: Columbus sights land in the Caribbean."
d[195]=14
m[195]=9
t[195]="1947: The Bell X1 was the first aircraft to break through the sound barrier flown by Captain Charles E Yeager. "
d[196]=15
m[196]=9
t[196]="1783: de Rozier became the first person to make an ascent in a hot air balloon."
d[197]=18
m[197]=9
t[197]="1931: Thomas Edison died."
d[198]=19
m[198]=9
t[198]="1937: Ernest Rutherford died."
d[199]=20
m[199]=9
t[199]="1632: Sir Christopher Wren was born."
d[200]=22
m[200]=9
t[200]="1797: André-Jacques Garnerin made the first parachute jump from a balloon."
d[201]=23
m[201]=9
t[201]="2003: Concorde made its last commercial flight."
d[202]=27
m[202]=9
t[202]="1829: Stephenson′s rocket won the Rainhill trials."
d[203]=28
m[203]=9
t[203]="1831: Michael Faraday demonstrated the first dynamo."
d[204]=29
m[204]=9
t[204]="1783: Jean-le-Rond D′Alembert died."
d[205]=31
m[205]=9
t[205]="1982: Thames Barrier, London, raised for the first time."
d[206]=3
m[206]=10
t[206]="1957: Sputnik 2 with the dog Laika onboard is launched."
d[207]=4
m[207]=10
t[207]="1862: Richard Gatling patented the rapid fire gun."
d[208]=6
m[208]=10
t[208]="1952: The first hydrogen bomb was exploded."
d[209]=8
m[209]=10
t[209]="1895: William Roentgen discovered X-rays."
d[210]=9
m[210]=10
t[210]="1934: Carl Sagan was born."
d[211]=10
m[211]=10
t[211]="1989: Began to pull down the Berlin wall."
d[212]=11
m[212]=10
t[212]="1940: Willys Jeep was launched for the US Army."
d[213]=12
m[213]=10
t[213]="1847: Chloroform as an anaesthetic was demonstrated by James Simpson."
d[214]=13
m[214]=10
t[214]="1851: Telegraph service between London and Paris started operating."
d[215]=14
m[215]=10
t[215]="1896: Speed limit in Britain raised from 4 to 14mph."
d[216]=15
m[216]=10
t[216]="1738: William Herschel was born"
d[217]=16
m[217]=10
t[217]="1717: Jean-le-Rond D′Alembert was born."
d[218]=17
m[218]=10
t[218]="1869: The Suez Canal was opened."
d[219]=18
m[219]=10
t[219]="1962: Niels Bohr died."
d[220]=19
m[220]=10
t[220]="1493: Christopher Columbus discovered Puerto Rico on his second voyage to the New World."
d[221]=20
m[221]=10
t[221]="1953: The first aircraft to break Mach 2. A Douglas D-558-2 was flown by A Scott Crossfield to Mach 2.005 (1,328 mph) over Edwards Air Force Base."
d[222]=22
m[222]=10
t[222]="1497: Vasco de Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope on his way to find a new route to India."
d[223]=24
m[223]=10
t[223]="1859: "On the Origin of Species", Charles Darwin was first published."
d[224]=27
m[224]=10
t[224]="1701: Anders Celcius was born on this day."
d[225]=2
m[225]=11
t[225]="1697: Sir Christopher Wren′s redesigned St Paul′s Cathedral was reopened."
d[226]=3
m[226]=11
t[226]="1973: Pioneer 10 becomes the first space vehicle to fly past Jupiter."
d[227]=6
m[227]=11
t[227]="1877: Thomas Edison demonstrated the first gramophone."
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m[228]=11
t[228]="1941: Japan launched a surpirse attack on the American Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbour."
d[229]=8
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t[229]="1864: Clifton suspension bridge opened."
d[230]=10
m[230]=11
t[230]="1901: The first Nodel prizes were awarded."
d[231]=11
m[231]=11
t[231]="1972: Eugene Cernan and Jack Schmitt in Appolo 17 are the to land on the Moon."
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t[232]="1915: Junkers J1 makes the first flight of an all metal aircraft."
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t[233]="1577: Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth on his journey around the world."
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t[234]="1962: The first pictures of Venus close-up were taken by Mariner II."
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t[235]="1903: On this day Orville Wright made the first controlled powered flight. He flew a distance of 120 feet, lasting 12 seconds."
d[236]=18
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t[236]="1979: The sound barrier was broken on land for the first time by Stanley Barrett."
d[237]=19
m[237]=11
t[237]="1972: Appolo 17 splashed down in the Pacific bringing to an end the Apollo program and manned landings on the moon."
d[238]=21
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t[238]="1968: First manned flight around the moon is made by Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders in Apollo 8."
d[239]=22
m[239]=11
t[239]="1895: First X-ray made by Wilhelm Roentgen."
d[240]=23
m[240]=11
t[240]="1986: Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager complete the first non-stop circumnavigation of the world without any refuelling in the Rutan Voyager."
d[241]=24
m[241]=11
t[241]="1966: Luna 13 landed on the moon."
d[242]=25
m[242]=11
t[242]="1642: Isaac Newton was born."
d[243]=26
m[243]=11
t[243]="1898: Marie and Pierre Curie discovered Radium."
d[244]=27
m[244]=11
t[244]="1831: Charles Darwin set sail on the Beagle on his voyage of discovery."
d[245]=28
m[245]=11
t[245]="1895: Auguste and Louis Lumiere show their Cinematographe to the public in Paris, the first real cinema."
d[246]=29
m[246]=11
t[246]="1860: HMS Warrior, first British iron clad warship was launched."
d[247]=30
m[247]=11
t[247]="1905: Victor Hemery set a land speed record of 109.6 mph in a Darracq."
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t[248]="1909: 1470 foot span Manhattan Bridge opened."