1977 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise
1962 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (U.S.S.R.)
1957 1st President to fly in helicopter - Dwight Eisenhower
1957 U.S. Surgeon General Leroy Burney connects smoking with lung cancer
1948 1st jets to fly across Atlantic, 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires
1933 Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1928 1st televised tennis match
1912 1st foreign feature film exhibited in U.S. - "Queen Elizabeth" - New York
City
1859 Paper bag manufacturing machine patents by William Goodale, Massachusetts
1817 1st flower show held, Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland
1785 1st manned flight by gas balloon in Netherlands
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