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39th year  -  N° 324                 Tuesday, 19 November 2024         Antwerpen		
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Saturday 22nd of July 1933

91 years ago



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.