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1924
Apr 26
| 1924 • U.S. Army pilots John Harding and Erik Nelson complete the first round-the-world flight. It takes them 175 days and 74 stops before they finally returned to Seattle. |
1930
Age: 5y
| 1930 • Betty Boop premieres in the animated film Dizzy Dishes. |
1930
Apr 10
Age: 5y
| 1930 • Nurse Ellen Church becomes the world's first flight attendant, working on a Boeing Air Transport trimotor. |
1944
Aug 4
Age: 20y
| 1944 • The first complete U.S. production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is presented in San Francisco, choreographed by William Christensen. It will become an annual tradition there, and for the next ten years, the San Francisco Ballet will be the only company in the United States performing the complete work until George Balanchine premieres his version in New York in 1954. |
1954
Jul 1
Age: 30y
birth of childMarsha L Thornton |
2002
Dec 23
Age: 78y
| 2002 • The United States Senate withdraws from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972. The Russian State Duma withdraws from START II Treaty of 1993 in response. |