BirthFactDeath (x) Saturday 22nd of July 1933 91 years ago |
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35-year-old aviation pioneer Wiley Post becomes the first man to fly around the world solo from New York to Berlin, Königsberg, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Rukhlovo, Khabarovsk, Flat, Fairbanks, Edmonton, and back to New York in Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States. Fifty thousand people greeted Post on his return after 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes. |
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