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17th December 1903
At Kitty Hawk in North Carolina, Orville Wright completes the first ever powered aeroplane flight, covering 120 feet in 12 seconds and reaching a height of 10 feet. The Wright Brothers completed three further flights that day, the last one covering 852 feet and lasting 57 seconds.
[Source: North Carolina State Library]
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31st December 1695
A window tax was imposed in Britain which resulted in many windows being bricked up and gave rise to the phrase "daylight robbery".
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