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This Day In Hiytory
hot-air balloon
first manned free flight was taken by Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes on a 20-minute, 9-km. flight over Paris (1783)
phonograph
a new invention was announced by Thomas Edison (1877)
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
span connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island in New York City opened to the public; it was the longest suspension bridge in the world until overtaken by the UK's Humber Bridge (1964)
Who shot J.R.?
350 million people worldwide tuned in to Dallas to find out (1980)