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Hughes lifts off from New York; four men and a Lockheed 14 aim to circle the earth

The record to beat stands at nearly eight days; Hughes carries the latest radio and navigation gear on a twin-engine Super Electra.

By 1938, Howard Hughes was rich and reclusive, better known for his fortune than his flying. On July 10, he lifted off from New York City in a twin-engine Lockheed 14 Super Electra, crewed by four men and packed with the latest radio and navigation gear, bound for a circuit of the globe. Four days later, on July 14, he landed back in New York having circled the earth in just under 91 hours. The record he broke had stood at nearly eight days…

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1942

Navy pilot spots a downed Zero on Akutan Island; the U.S. has its first intact enemy fighter

Bill Thies, flying a PBY, finds Petty Officer Koga's crashed Zero upside down in the mud, a month after it went down during the Dutch Harbor attack.
1890

Harrison signs Wyoming into the Union; women's suffrage comes with it

The 44th state enters with its suffrage provision intact, approved by voters 6,272 to 1,903 last November, a condition Congress had to accept whole or not at all.
1962

AT&T's Telstar 1 rides a Delta rocket into orbit from Cape Canaveral

The 88-centimeter sphere is now circling Earth; AT&T says it is built to carry live television across the Atlantic.
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Wind scatters the 82nd Airborne across the southeast of the island before the first shot is fired, as American, British, and Canadian troops hit the beaches.
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1934

Handcuffed and under guard, the first inmates step onto Alcatraz

Sixty federal agents and marshals escorted 137 men from Leavenworth to an island the government called escape-proof.
1945

Days after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Washington tells the public how the bomb was built

Physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth's report explains the science while carefully withholding the engineering.
1918

First in line, a 39-year-old Washington clerk enlists in the Marine Corps

Opha May Johnson signs up five days after the Marine Corps opens its reserve to women.
1935

Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act; the elderly get a federal pension

Payroll taxes will fund old-age benefits, unemployment insurance, and aid to families with dependent children.
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