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Daily Archive for July 22nd, 2011

July 22

1952 American Frank L. Zybach was issued a U.S. patent for a “Self-Propelled Sprinkling Irrigating Apparatus” (Patent No. 2,604,359). 1933 American pilot Wiley Post completed the first round-the-world solo flight (15,596 miles) in his single-engine Lockheed Vega 5B aircraft “Winnie Mae,” in 7 days 18hr 49min. 1894 Frenchman Marquis Jules FĂ©lix Philippe Albert de Dion [...]

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